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11,372,870 | 11,372,895 | 1 | 2 | 11,372,536 | train | <story><title>The Encryption Meltdown</title><url>http://on.wsj.com/1ZuzJHA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droopybuns</author><text>I wrote letters to my Congress critters arguing essentially the same point<p>It is disqualifying that a &quot;leader&quot; like James Comey would argue that the government can reasonably demand that private companies can protect customer secrets and give the government a secret path to access those secrets, in spite of everyone&#x27;s failure to properly protect secrets (ala home depot, target, opm, et. Al.).<p>This is not the argument of a serious, honest man. It advertises his ignorance of reality and utter incompetence of judgement.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Encryption Meltdown</title><url>http://on.wsj.com/1ZuzJHA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ra1n85</author><text>Does this surprise anyone?<p>Nevermind that this all an exercise in charging windmills. How woeful it is, too. Billions of tax dollars spent in trying to defeat the inevitable. All with a &quot;constitutional scholar&quot; as a president.<p>It&#x27;s like the Prohibition of the 21st century, just tinged with free speech and notes of a surveillance state.</text></comment> |
22,938,916 | 22,938,707 | 1 | 2 | 22,936,818 | train | <story><title>Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites</title><url>https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threepio</author><text>Stripe customer here. The question raised is, more broadly, &quot;Is Stripe collecting this data in a legal and ethical way?&quot; This too can be readily answered in the negative.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter whether &quot;Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention&quot; or if it works in practice. Under CalOPPA [1], Stripe still has to disclose the collection of the data, and (among other things) allow customers to opt out of collection of this data, and allow customers to inspect the data collected. Stripe&#x27;s privacy policy refers to opt-out and inspection rights about certain data, but AFAICT not this.<p>[This is not legal advice]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=BPC&amp;division=8.&amp;title=&amp;part=&amp;chapter=22.&amp;article=" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;codes_displayText.xh...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;privacy#your-rights-and-choices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;privacy#your-rights-and-choices</a></text></item><item><author>pc</author><text>Stripe cofounder here. The question raised (&quot;Is Stripe collecting this data for advertising?&quot;) can be readily answered in the negative. This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold&#x2F;rented&#x2F;etc. to advertisers.<p>Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention -- it helps us detect bots who try to defraud businesses that use Stripe. (CAPTCHAs use similar techniques but result in more UI friction.) Stripe.js is part of the ML stack that helps us stop literally millions of fraudulent payments per day and techniques like this help us block fraud more effectively than almost anything else on the market. Businesses that use Stripe would lose a lot more money if it didn&#x27;t exist. We see this directly: some businesses don&#x27;t use Stripe.js and they are often suddenly and unpleasantly surprised when attacked by sophisticated fraud rings.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use Stripe.js, you definitely don&#x27;t have to (or you can include it only on a minimal checkout page) -- it just depends how much PCI burden and fraud risk you&#x27;d like to take on.<p>We will immediately clarify the ToS language that makes this ambiguous. We&#x27;ll also put up a clearer page about Stripe.js&#x27;s fraud prevention.<p>(Updated to add: further down in this thread, fillskills writes[1]: <i>&quot;As someone who saw this first hand, Stripe’s fraud detection really works. Fraudulent transactions went down from ~2% to under 0.5% on hundreds of thousands of transactions per month. And it very likely saved our business at a very critical phase.&quot;</i> This is what we&#x27;re aiming for (and up against) with Stripe Radar and Stripe.js, and why we work on these technologies.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22938141" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22938141</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>I am not an attorney. This is not legal advice.<p>Based on a plain reading of the law, several things about CalOPPA stand out to me. For one, it&#x27;s not clear to me that the mouse movements in question qualify as &quot;personally identifiable information&quot;. Mouse movements are not a first or last name, physical or email address, SSN, telephone number, or any contact method I am familiar with (maybe you know a way?).<p>Second, it seems to me that opt-out, right to inspect and update, and more are all contingent upon the data being PII within the scope of CalOPPA. Perhaps you can help me with something I&#x27;ve overlooked that would show me where I&#x27;ve erred?<p>Further, what do you think the correct legal and ethical way for Stripe to use mouse movement data would be? From your comment I can guess that you believe it should be treated as PII. Is that correct?</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites</title><url>https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threepio</author><text>Stripe customer here. The question raised is, more broadly, &quot;Is Stripe collecting this data in a legal and ethical way?&quot; This too can be readily answered in the negative.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter whether &quot;Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention&quot; or if it works in practice. Under CalOPPA [1], Stripe still has to disclose the collection of the data, and (among other things) allow customers to opt out of collection of this data, and allow customers to inspect the data collected. Stripe&#x27;s privacy policy refers to opt-out and inspection rights about certain data, but AFAICT not this.<p>[This is not legal advice]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=BPC&amp;division=8.&amp;title=&amp;part=&amp;chapter=22.&amp;article=" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;codes_displayText.xh...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;privacy#your-rights-and-choices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;privacy#your-rights-and-choices</a></text></item><item><author>pc</author><text>Stripe cofounder here. The question raised (&quot;Is Stripe collecting this data for advertising?&quot;) can be readily answered in the negative. This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold&#x2F;rented&#x2F;etc. to advertisers.<p>Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention -- it helps us detect bots who try to defraud businesses that use Stripe. (CAPTCHAs use similar techniques but result in more UI friction.) Stripe.js is part of the ML stack that helps us stop literally millions of fraudulent payments per day and techniques like this help us block fraud more effectively than almost anything else on the market. Businesses that use Stripe would lose a lot more money if it didn&#x27;t exist. We see this directly: some businesses don&#x27;t use Stripe.js and they are often suddenly and unpleasantly surprised when attacked by sophisticated fraud rings.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use Stripe.js, you definitely don&#x27;t have to (or you can include it only on a minimal checkout page) -- it just depends how much PCI burden and fraud risk you&#x27;d like to take on.<p>We will immediately clarify the ToS language that makes this ambiguous. We&#x27;ll also put up a clearer page about Stripe.js&#x27;s fraud prevention.<p>(Updated to add: further down in this thread, fillskills writes[1]: <i>&quot;As someone who saw this first hand, Stripe’s fraud detection really works. Fraudulent transactions went down from ~2% to under 0.5% on hundreds of thousands of transactions per month. And it very likely saved our business at a very critical phase.&quot;</i> This is what we&#x27;re aiming for (and up against) with Stripe Radar and Stripe.js, and why we work on these technologies.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22938141" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22938141</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;privacy</a> describes what we do in some detail (including disclosing that we use this kind of browsing data).<p>More broadly, I assure you that Stripe.js and our fraud prevention technologies are very carefully designed with full compliance with the relevant California (and other) statutes in mind. I’d be happy to connect you with our legal team if you’d like to discuss this in more detail. (I&#x27;m [email protected].)</text></comment> |
24,206,134 | 24,204,737 | 1 | 3 | 24,196,237 | train | <story><title>An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/g19a1w/heres_a_brand_thats_building_its_reviews_steadily/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1024core</author><text>I bought something from Amazon, and it wasn&#x27;t up to spec, so I left a 3-star review.<p>Well, I got contacted by the seller, offering me $20 to take down the review. I ignored it.<p>Then a few weeks later, they upped the offer. And in response, I downed the stars.<p>Last I heard from them, they were offering me $70 to take down the review. For something that cost under $15.<p>Amazon itself doesn&#x27;t help either. I bought something (a food item) from Amazon, and it was nowhere close to the quality in the photographs or description. I wrote a review, describing how the actual item was of much lower quality than expected. Amazon refused to post my review! And I&#x27;ve been an Amazon customer for nearly 20 years!</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;You don&#x27;t look for that &lt;i&gt; Verified purchase &lt;&#x2F;i&gt; text ?</i><p>If you&#x27;re not being sarcastic...<p>Those &quot;Verified Purchase&quot; reviews can also be faked by manufacturers&#x2F;sellers reimbursing the credit-card payment of the Amazon shopper.<p>Example:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nicolenguyen&#x2F;her-amazon-purchases-are-real-the-reviews-are-fake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nicolenguyen&#x2F;her-amazon...</a></text></item><item><author>mandeepj</author><text>&gt; Yes, both the 5-star reviews and 1-star reviews can be gamed.<p>You don&#x27;t look for that &lt;i&gt; Verified purchase &lt;&#x2F;i&gt; text ?</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt; as a consumer I see a 4.9 rating as indistinguishable from a 0.9 rating.</i><p>I&#x27;ve been an Amazon customer for more than 20 years. Yes, both the 5-star reviews and 1-star reviews can be gamed. Many 5-stars reviews are fake because of bribery. Many 1-star reviews are from competitors trying to hurt their rivals.<p>That said, I still find Amazon reviews useful if I <i>read the texts</i> instead of depending on the number of stars. I go to the 3-star and 2-star reviews and read the <i>specific</i> complaints customers are writing about. Some reviewers also post useful photos.<p>For example, I needed to buy a guest bed for COVID quarantine so I looked for &quot;air mattress&quot; on Amazon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=air+mattress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=air+mattress</a><p>Most of those have 5-star reviews. I ignore that and simply <i>read the texts</i>. After digesting some reviews, I learn that all air mattresses regardless of brand suffer from leakage (usually after the 30-day return period). Some recommended getting a foldable foam mattress as an alternative to totally avoid the issues with leaks and broken air pumps. That&#x27;s what I ended up buying and it was the Amazon reviews that steered me away from air mattresses.</text></item><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>That ship has sailed, in my opinion.<p>Reviews - particularly on Amazon - are meaningless. The cat-and-mouse game has gone so far that as a consumer I see a 4.9 rating as indistinguishable from a 0.9 rating. Buying from an unknown brand is a crapshoot. Buying from a known brand on Amazon isn&#x27;t much better.<p>And it makes me wonder how long these black hat practices are going to be useful to sellers. Most Amazon users have to be feeling the same way at this point.</text></item><item><author>zeepzeep</author><text>A friend of mine is in a facebook group that has lists of products you can buy, then 4&#x2F;5-star review and get your money back. We&#x27;re talking 10-100€ products.<p>He goes as far as reviewing everything he doesn&#x27;t buy there with less than 3 stars so his account isn&#x27;t suspicious.<p>Doing this he completely destroys what reviews are meant to be, not only helping shady companies but also hurting legit ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>I reported someone trying to bribe me to remove a review. Amazon passed it along to them and the company started emailing me creepy stalker stuff about my Instagram.</text></comment> | <story><title>An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/g19a1w/heres_a_brand_thats_building_its_reviews_steadily/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1024core</author><text>I bought something from Amazon, and it wasn&#x27;t up to spec, so I left a 3-star review.<p>Well, I got contacted by the seller, offering me $20 to take down the review. I ignored it.<p>Then a few weeks later, they upped the offer. And in response, I downed the stars.<p>Last I heard from them, they were offering me $70 to take down the review. For something that cost under $15.<p>Amazon itself doesn&#x27;t help either. I bought something (a food item) from Amazon, and it was nowhere close to the quality in the photographs or description. I wrote a review, describing how the actual item was of much lower quality than expected. Amazon refused to post my review! And I&#x27;ve been an Amazon customer for nearly 20 years!</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;You don&#x27;t look for that &lt;i&gt; Verified purchase &lt;&#x2F;i&gt; text ?</i><p>If you&#x27;re not being sarcastic...<p>Those &quot;Verified Purchase&quot; reviews can also be faked by manufacturers&#x2F;sellers reimbursing the credit-card payment of the Amazon shopper.<p>Example:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nicolenguyen&#x2F;her-amazon-purchases-are-real-the-reviews-are-fake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nicolenguyen&#x2F;her-amazon...</a></text></item><item><author>mandeepj</author><text>&gt; Yes, both the 5-star reviews and 1-star reviews can be gamed.<p>You don&#x27;t look for that &lt;i&gt; Verified purchase &lt;&#x2F;i&gt; text ?</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt; as a consumer I see a 4.9 rating as indistinguishable from a 0.9 rating.</i><p>I&#x27;ve been an Amazon customer for more than 20 years. Yes, both the 5-star reviews and 1-star reviews can be gamed. Many 5-stars reviews are fake because of bribery. Many 1-star reviews are from competitors trying to hurt their rivals.<p>That said, I still find Amazon reviews useful if I <i>read the texts</i> instead of depending on the number of stars. I go to the 3-star and 2-star reviews and read the <i>specific</i> complaints customers are writing about. Some reviewers also post useful photos.<p>For example, I needed to buy a guest bed for COVID quarantine so I looked for &quot;air mattress&quot; on Amazon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=air+mattress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=air+mattress</a><p>Most of those have 5-star reviews. I ignore that and simply <i>read the texts</i>. After digesting some reviews, I learn that all air mattresses regardless of brand suffer from leakage (usually after the 30-day return period). Some recommended getting a foldable foam mattress as an alternative to totally avoid the issues with leaks and broken air pumps. That&#x27;s what I ended up buying and it was the Amazon reviews that steered me away from air mattresses.</text></item><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>That ship has sailed, in my opinion.<p>Reviews - particularly on Amazon - are meaningless. The cat-and-mouse game has gone so far that as a consumer I see a 4.9 rating as indistinguishable from a 0.9 rating. Buying from an unknown brand is a crapshoot. Buying from a known brand on Amazon isn&#x27;t much better.<p>And it makes me wonder how long these black hat practices are going to be useful to sellers. Most Amazon users have to be feeling the same way at this point.</text></item><item><author>zeepzeep</author><text>A friend of mine is in a facebook group that has lists of products you can buy, then 4&#x2F;5-star review and get your money back. We&#x27;re talking 10-100€ products.<p>He goes as far as reviewing everything he doesn&#x27;t buy there with less than 3 stars so his account isn&#x27;t suspicious.<p>Doing this he completely destroys what reviews are meant to be, not only helping shady companies but also hurting legit ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amiga_500</author><text>Did the first company complain about you to Amazon, who then blacklist you for not playing ball?</text></comment> |
12,633,211 | 12,633,254 | 1 | 2 | 12,632,646 | train | <story><title>Hyperloop – The Missing Ruby Front-end Library</title><url>http://ruby-hyperloop.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coltonv</author><text>I see a lot of people working really hard to use the same language on client and server, but I&#x27;ve never had any difficulty working with multiple languages nor have my teammates. The biggest advantage for using different languages for me is that it lets you get to choose the best tool for the job on both sides without compromising. Would anyone who holds the alternate view, that they have reaped significant advantages from using the same language on server and client, care to chime in?</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyperloop – The Missing Ruby Front-end Library</title><url>http://ruby-hyperloop.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gonyea</author><text>Oh sweet jesus. This is erector all over again.<p>The code inside the blocks are uncacheable; it&#x27;s an expensive novelty. Plus these abstractions always break down. Our job is to build products that meet people&#x27;s needs. Not to contort solutions into our preferred form, at the expense of the product.</text></comment> |
16,772,573 | 16,772,036 | 1 | 3 | 16,768,021 | train | <story><title>Berkeley offers its data science course online for free</title><url>http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/berkeley-offers-its-fastest-growing-course-data-science-online-for-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mr_toad</author><text>Every job that involves data in any way is being relabeled a data science job. Most of them are just generating dashboards and posters in Excel or Tableau for people who are data illiterate. I know many people with maths&#x2F;stats&#x2F;comp-sci backgrounds who end up in these sorts of jobs.<p>“Just add a bunch of green up arrows and red down arrows, your manager will love it” was advice from a co-worker of mine. Sadly, she was right.</text></item><item><author>resolaibohp</author><text>I have also found this interesting. What I don&#x27;t understand is that the amount of data science jobs are no where near the levels that people make it seem. I am not sure where all these people will end up working if they want to be a data scientist. There is not a need to hire huge teams of data scientists like you might for dev roles, it doesn&#x27;t scale the same way.</text></item><item><author>jamestimmins</author><text>I find it curious that there are so many courses for data-science related subjects, which superficially seem to cover the same material, and relatively few courses covering more traditional CS topics such as computer systems, networks, OS. I suppose it has to do with the market, but also feels like colleges are skating to where the puck is, rather than where it will be (or perhaps, where it could be).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wakkaflokka</author><text>It&#x27;s actually become somewhat hilarious to me. Like you said, the data science label is being applied quite liberally (no judgment, I&#x27;m not the world&#x27;s authority on how it should be applied), so here you have companies paying $100k or more to have people do Excel work or Tableau visualizations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Berkeley offers its data science course online for free</title><url>http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/berkeley-offers-its-fastest-growing-course-data-science-online-for-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mr_toad</author><text>Every job that involves data in any way is being relabeled a data science job. Most of them are just generating dashboards and posters in Excel or Tableau for people who are data illiterate. I know many people with maths&#x2F;stats&#x2F;comp-sci backgrounds who end up in these sorts of jobs.<p>“Just add a bunch of green up arrows and red down arrows, your manager will love it” was advice from a co-worker of mine. Sadly, she was right.</text></item><item><author>resolaibohp</author><text>I have also found this interesting. What I don&#x27;t understand is that the amount of data science jobs are no where near the levels that people make it seem. I am not sure where all these people will end up working if they want to be a data scientist. There is not a need to hire huge teams of data scientists like you might for dev roles, it doesn&#x27;t scale the same way.</text></item><item><author>jamestimmins</author><text>I find it curious that there are so many courses for data-science related subjects, which superficially seem to cover the same material, and relatively few courses covering more traditional CS topics such as computer systems, networks, OS. I suppose it has to do with the market, but also feels like colleges are skating to where the puck is, rather than where it will be (or perhaps, where it could be).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>In an engineering class, when dealing with a problem about factories that produce widgets and consume resources&#x2F;widgets from other machines, I made a complex Excel spreadsheet that was animated to pass little numbers around that represented the items produced or consumed.<p>It didn&#x27;t actually give correct results, I&#x27;m not sure it could have worked (I needed to do two updates on the same cycle and never did figure out how), and I documented that it was buggy.<p>But it looked cool and I got good marks. So my experience pretty much agrees with yours.</text></comment> |
24,087,622 | 24,087,573 | 1 | 3 | 24,087,247 | train | <story><title>Why is this idiot running my engineering org?</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/why-is-this-idiot-running-my-engineering-org-c6e815790cdb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Sorry, the story totally lost me after she was describing the interaction with the FBI. I did not easily take away some conclusion about what she had done wrong or what deep pile of shit she had just created for herself, or what on 2 paths she had just chosen incorrectly, or daringly?<p>(The paragraph ending, &quot;I trusted the FBI to be good at their jobs.&quot; The next paragraph jumps right to generalizations, and I didn&#x27;t clearly understand from her writing what problem did she just cause without knowing it?)<p>Without that spelled out, I have a hard time really being on board with the rest of the essay. Actually, it&#x27;s almost like they&#x27;re 2 different essays broken at that point above.<p>Anyone else experience the same issue in reading it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keenmaster</author><text>I think she&#x27;s saying that it&#x27;s odd to her, as someone who innately enjoys doing highly consequential work, that other people don&#x27;t share in her enthusiasm. Similarly, coworkers must find it odd that she doesn&#x27;t actively dodge such work or deal with it in a robotic, CYA manner, devoid of enthusiasm. Her realization about them and their realization about her are asymmetric in consequence. Even if she judges them it won&#x27;t affect them, because they&#x27;re more of the norm (a tribe of like-minded people). However, she stands out, and that makes her life harder in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. The occasional &quot;joke&quot; or compliment about her enthusiasm might actually be underhanded trivialization. Clearly she finds the fulfillment to be worth it though.<p>I assume it takes working for the government to fully understand. Risk averse people pile into cushy government jobs. After they shoehorn themselves into that career, they become even more risk averse. Then every few years they see people take risks and get fired for it. The aggregate effect of this is that not only might they be dismissive towards those whom they perceive as risk-takers, they might be actively hostile towards them. This is for two reasons. One is that the &quot;risks&quot; might pay off in a visible way (more on that later), making the other bureaucrats who are vying for a promotion look bad. The other is that they fear the risk will affect them in some way, and they want no part of it. They imagine either more work on their plate (God forbid) or adverse consequences because of this &quot;naive troublemaker who just doesn&#x27;t get it.&quot; To make it even worse, it’s way easier to just promote the people you like in government. Guess who risk averse people will tend to promote? Guess what type of work is made more visible to senior management? So hard work is not rewarded as well as at corporations, unless it’s a very narrow kind of hard work that adheres to the most literal interpretation of one’s job responsibilities. Those are my 2 cents, I could be way off about the author’s intent there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is this idiot running my engineering org?</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/why-is-this-idiot-running-my-engineering-org-c6e815790cdb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Sorry, the story totally lost me after she was describing the interaction with the FBI. I did not easily take away some conclusion about what she had done wrong or what deep pile of shit she had just created for herself, or what on 2 paths she had just chosen incorrectly, or daringly?<p>(The paragraph ending, &quot;I trusted the FBI to be good at their jobs.&quot; The next paragraph jumps right to generalizations, and I didn&#x27;t clearly understand from her writing what problem did she just cause without knowing it?)<p>Without that spelled out, I have a hard time really being on board with the rest of the essay. Actually, it&#x27;s almost like they&#x27;re 2 different essays broken at that point above.<p>Anyone else experience the same issue in reading it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmmcd</author><text>I know what you mean, but no. It wasn&#x27;t that she had done something wrong, it was just amazing (to her manager) that she had done something so (apparently) brave as reaching out to the FBI. The point of the essay is -- some people are brave in this way, and some aren&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s a good essay, but what I loved was the way she described connecting people as &quot;just&quot; doing her job. She didn&#x27;t see it as brave. I&#x27;m not sure what degree I would need to take, or what job title I would have to have, to see &quot;making connections&quot; as my job.</text></comment> |
21,802,546 | 21,800,567 | 1 | 3 | 21,800,335 | train | <story><title>The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zrkrlc</author><text>Hmm, in my head, I model conversation as a game of who can get the mine the most &quot;intimacy&quot;, if you will, while revealing the least about oneself. So risque topics are, as the adjective suggests, high risk, but also high reward. Correspondingly, small talk is a lot of low risk, low reward back-and-forth. You don&#x27;t have to be intimate with a stranger, but you need to stick your neck out if you want to progress beyond pleasantries.<p>Here&#x27;s a longer piece about the whole topic of conversations that I wrote a while back: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zrkrlc.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;27&#x2F;a-long-guide-to-conversations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zrkrlc.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;27&#x2F;a-long-guide-to-conv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>I find it to be the other way around.<p>Revealing &quot;intimate&quot; things about yourself seems to be the easiest way for others to believe that you consider them trustworthy for almost zero cost.<p>&quot;u&#x2F;screye trusts me enough to tell something they are vulnerable about.&quot; Or on a more selfish note, &quot;I now hold leverage on r&#x2F;screye, so I shall continue engaging with them from a position of assumed power&quot; or lastly, &quot;I can share something intimate about myself with u&#x2F;screye because I know something just as important seeming, so they would not use it against me&quot;<p>It works surprisingly well to fast track the building of a relationship with any acquaintance.<p>Ofc, I put intimate in &quot;quotes&quot; because while the details sound intimate to the listener, they are often carefully chosen to be ones that do not cause value judgements for my current self nor are they the real insecurities (or at least not present ones) which I hold far closer to my heart. But, the person I&#x27;m talking to doesn&#x27;t need to know that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zrkrlc</author><text>Hmm, in my head, I model conversation as a game of who can get the mine the most &quot;intimacy&quot;, if you will, while revealing the least about oneself. So risque topics are, as the adjective suggests, high risk, but also high reward. Correspondingly, small talk is a lot of low risk, low reward back-and-forth. You don&#x27;t have to be intimate with a stranger, but you need to stick your neck out if you want to progress beyond pleasantries.<p>Here&#x27;s a longer piece about the whole topic of conversations that I wrote a while back: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zrkrlc.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;27&#x2F;a-long-guide-to-conversations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zrkrlc.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;27&#x2F;a-long-guide-to-conv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asveikau</author><text>Some personal advice: stop viewing your interactions in this transactional way and just be yourself. Stop giving a shit who reveals what and the perceived balance or imbalance of the same. Be kind and be generous.</text></comment> |
29,129,001 | 29,127,554 | 1 | 2 | 29,106,159 | train | <story><title>Never update anything</title><url>https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>web007</author><text>Corollary: Do hard things more often, per Martin Fowler - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;FrequencyReducesDifficulty.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...</a><p>Upgrade everything all the time and it will never be hard. You&#x27;ll have full context for breaking changes, and the diff from A to B is always smaller than from A to Q, and less likely to break in strange and confusing ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selimnairb</author><text>In my experience, upgrade everything all the time only works if you can keep your dependencies to a minimum, which can be harder in JS&#x2F;TS land, but not impossible. I used to think every line of code you write is a liability, but have come to realize that every dependency is also a liability. So it’s about balancing the two.</text></comment> | <story><title>Never update anything</title><url>https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>web007</author><text>Corollary: Do hard things more often, per Martin Fowler - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;FrequencyReducesDifficulty.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...</a><p>Upgrade everything all the time and it will never be hard. You&#x27;ll have full context for breaking changes, and the diff from A to B is always smaller than from A to Q, and less likely to break in strange and confusing ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Igelau</author><text>I&#x27;m in this camp. I ran into a recent situation where I could have used a drop-in security module if the project had updated the framework in the past decade. Instead we rolled our own, which is janky and took longer than it should have.<p>Debts have a way of compounding. Tech debt is no exception. Tech debt begets tech debt begets tech debt, and it will hang on your velocity like a ball and chain.</text></comment> |
11,962,279 | 11,961,961 | 1 | 2 | 11,959,230 | train | <story><title>The Rule of 72 (2007)</title><url>http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-rule-of-72/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbart</author><text><i>&quot;This stuff should be taught in high schools.&quot;</i><p>Strange, so it&#x27;s not taught in USA? I always assumed compound interest to be basics and taught universally. I did learn about them probably in 7th or 8th grade.</text></item><item><author>nailer</author><text>People shouldn&#x27;t be able to get credit cards until they understand compound interest. This stuff should be taught in high schools.<p>There&#x27;s a group doing that: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;schooold.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;schooold.com&#x2F;</a>. They have a financial curriculum that&#x27;s now part of the Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grahamburger</author><text>I think every time I&#x27;ve heard someone say &#x27;this should be taught in public school&#x27; it&#x27;s in reference to something that already is taught in public school. The problem is we don&#x27;t internalize things that we haven&#x27;t had to experience yet very well, and we forget.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rule of 72 (2007)</title><url>http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-rule-of-72/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbart</author><text><i>&quot;This stuff should be taught in high schools.&quot;</i><p>Strange, so it&#x27;s not taught in USA? I always assumed compound interest to be basics and taught universally. I did learn about them probably in 7th or 8th grade.</text></item><item><author>nailer</author><text>People shouldn&#x27;t be able to get credit cards until they understand compound interest. This stuff should be taught in high schools.<p>There&#x27;s a group doing that: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;schooold.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;schooold.com&#x2F;</a>. They have a financial curriculum that&#x27;s now part of the Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>This is taught in american middle schools and high schools. Multiple times; it&#x27;s the defacto example of how exponents work.<p>It is not explicitly called out in the Common Core standard, but several of the examples in the common core are interest rate problems.<p>Here&#x27;s an example from the California Standard, search for &#x27;interest&#x27;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;be&#x2F;st&#x2F;ss&#x2F;documents&#x2F;ccssmathstandardaug2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;be&#x2F;st&#x2F;ss&#x2F;documents&#x2F;ccssmathstandardaug...</a></text></comment> |
24,298,466 | 24,298,163 | 1 | 3 | 24,294,397 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad</title><url>https://launch-preview.museapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamwiggins</author><text>That&#x27;s fair, and we&#x27;re considering ways to make it possible to try the app without an email.<p>However I&#x27;m curious: do you apply this same criteria when trying software like Notion, Figma, or Google Docs? I assume you have different criteria based on whether the software is downloaded to your local device or not, but would love to understand why that&#x27;s so.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>If the app stores all my data locally, why does it require an email? It doesn&#x27;t even say <i>why</i> an email is required, just an annoying &quot;Enter your email to get started&quot; with no option to skip.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why apps have gotten so hostile towards curious users.<p>For me, that&#x27;s a hard <i>Nope</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkagerer</author><text>Google keeps my docs on the cloud so it&#x27;s obvious why I need to authenticate.<p>Wholly local desktop or tablet apps have no business asking for my email because they have no credible need for it. Authentication is borne by other elements (the OS, my physical security, etc).<p>As soon as an email dialog pops up, it breaks my mental model of &quot;local software&quot; and I worry about what the software is doing under the hood. Especially if it doesn&#x27;t come with any rationale about why it&#x27;s asking me for it. e.g. Will I get more spam (and yes, the quarterly message you send me about product updates <i>is</i> spam in my book unless I explicitly asked for it - you&#x27;re not as important as you think you are), does it phone home, what other telemetry is being siphoned off, etc? It&#x27;s a red flag that smells wrong, and signals the software isn&#x27;t behaving according to my expectations.<p>How would you feel if you walked up to a car that asked you to punch in your email address before you could open the door to take it for a test drive?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad</title><url>https://launch-preview.museapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamwiggins</author><text>That&#x27;s fair, and we&#x27;re considering ways to make it possible to try the app without an email.<p>However I&#x27;m curious: do you apply this same criteria when trying software like Notion, Figma, or Google Docs? I assume you have different criteria based on whether the software is downloaded to your local device or not, but would love to understand why that&#x27;s so.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>If the app stores all my data locally, why does it require an email? It doesn&#x27;t even say <i>why</i> an email is required, just an annoying &quot;Enter your email to get started&quot; with no option to skip.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why apps have gotten so hostile towards curious users.<p>For me, that&#x27;s a hard <i>Nope</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogre_codes</author><text>&gt; However I&#x27;m curious: do you apply this same criteria when trying software like Notion, Figma, or Google Docs?<p>Above you mentioned your preference for keeping data local to the device. That is one of the big motivators for even downloading the app. I don&#x27;t use Notion or Figma, and prefer Pages or Numbers to Google Docs when possible, so yes I do apply the same criteria.<p>Even though I avoid it when possible, I can at least understand why a tool like Google Docs which is cloud first or collaborative by nature requires an account. Why a local-first app requires an email is a complete mystery to me. What&#x27;s the benefit to me as a user? If you don&#x27;t make that case, I assume it&#x27;s for marketing and pass on it.</text></comment> |
14,868,572 | 14,867,138 | 1 | 3 | 14,865,365 | train | <story><title>Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/project-snowflake-non-blocking-safe-manual-memory-management-net/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>This work was also published in PLDI as &quot;Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;kedia2017mem.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;...</a>). The presentation from the conference is also online: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C07s5LTuTmE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C07s5LTuTmE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/project-snowflake-non-blocking-safe-manual-memory-management-net/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crudbug</author><text>Great work - +1 CLR vs JVM battle. Hoping this will get merged with CoreCLR soon. Any info on this ?</text></comment> |
16,575,219 | 16,574,662 | 1 | 2 | 16,569,492 | train | <story><title>Rust's 2018 roadmap</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/12/roadmap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>golergka</author><text>&gt; let hello = String::from(&quot;שָׁלוֹם&quot;);<p>This brings back PTSD for anyone who implemented ad-hoc RTL and UTF-16 surrogate pairs support in an environment that lacked them. Thank g-d I insisted that we at least omit diacritics as nobody uses them and they&#x27;re a huge pain to implement and QA properly.<p>Also, can we please, please, please keep source code files as pure ascii? Asking as a non-native english speaker. There&#x27;re a lot of tools that we developers need to use on those, and their encoding issues tend to follow the Murphy&#x27;s law and appear at the most inconvenient moment.<p>Edit regarding localization: all projects that I&#x27;ve worked on had localization in separate json or XML files, with automatic import&#x2F;export from spreadsheets that would be filled by third party localization company.<p>This is the line of code I find my cursor on literally the moment I switch to HN:<p>questIcon.Text.text = (&quot;Quest:&quot; + World.current[index].template.trueId + &quot;_title&quot;).T();<p>Where T() is the extension method from localization system. Why on earth would you include user-facing strings in the code itself?</text></item><item><author>cpach</author><text><p><pre><code> let hello = String::from(&quot;السلام عليكم&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Dobrý den&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Hello&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;שָׁלוֹם&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;नमस्ते&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;こんにちは&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;안녕하세요&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;你好&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Olá&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Здравствуйте&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Hola&quot;);
</code></pre>
This is such a beautiful sight for anyone who remembers the bad old days of Extended ASCII.</text></item><item><author>smoe</author><text>I started learning Rust over the weekends and I think the second edition &quot;The Rust Programming Language&quot; is among the best introductory books on a programming language I have read (well half way so far).<p>As someone not only new to Rust but also systems programming in general I especially appreciate that the chapters include actual reasoning about why things are how they are in Rust and that they seem pretty open about drawbacks of the choices. As well as the use of precise language instead of trying to be too cute and overly beginner friendly.<p>An example for this is the lengthy page on Strings:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;second-edition&#x2F;ch08-02-strings.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;second-edition&#x2F;ch08-02-string...</a><p>It really makes me feel you want me to understand what I&#x27;m doing from the start instead of getting a generic app out of the door as quick as possible and then tediously figure out the next basic steps from screencasts, scattered blog posts etc.<p>Also big plus for having the book and api doc available offline by default!<p>I&#x27;m going to try to come by #rustdoc and see if there something I could contribute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>&gt; <i>can we please, please, please keep source code files as pure ascii? Asking as a non-native english speaker. There&#x27;re a lot of tools</i><p>If there are tools that break when this happens, those tools need to be fixed. Bugs in those tools need to be found (through usage) and reported. If we avoid the problem by strictly sticking to ascii in source files, that amounts to sweeping those bugs under the carpet.<p>Furthermore, another commenter said &quot;use good tools&quot;. The inverse of this—don&#x27;t use bad tools—is important: developing tools that correctly handle encoding issues needs to be seen by developers as a priority. There needs to be a ramification (in the form of bug reports, complaints, etc.) if encoding issues are not considered by tool makers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust's 2018 roadmap</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/12/roadmap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>golergka</author><text>&gt; let hello = String::from(&quot;שָׁלוֹם&quot;);<p>This brings back PTSD for anyone who implemented ad-hoc RTL and UTF-16 surrogate pairs support in an environment that lacked them. Thank g-d I insisted that we at least omit diacritics as nobody uses them and they&#x27;re a huge pain to implement and QA properly.<p>Also, can we please, please, please keep source code files as pure ascii? Asking as a non-native english speaker. There&#x27;re a lot of tools that we developers need to use on those, and their encoding issues tend to follow the Murphy&#x27;s law and appear at the most inconvenient moment.<p>Edit regarding localization: all projects that I&#x27;ve worked on had localization in separate json or XML files, with automatic import&#x2F;export from spreadsheets that would be filled by third party localization company.<p>This is the line of code I find my cursor on literally the moment I switch to HN:<p>questIcon.Text.text = (&quot;Quest:&quot; + World.current[index].template.trueId + &quot;_title&quot;).T();<p>Where T() is the extension method from localization system. Why on earth would you include user-facing strings in the code itself?</text></item><item><author>cpach</author><text><p><pre><code> let hello = String::from(&quot;السلام عليكم&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Dobrý den&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Hello&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;שָׁלוֹם&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;नमस्ते&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;こんにちは&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;안녕하세요&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;你好&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Olá&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Здравствуйте&quot;);
let hello = String::from(&quot;Hola&quot;);
</code></pre>
This is such a beautiful sight for anyone who remembers the bad old days of Extended ASCII.</text></item><item><author>smoe</author><text>I started learning Rust over the weekends and I think the second edition &quot;The Rust Programming Language&quot; is among the best introductory books on a programming language I have read (well half way so far).<p>As someone not only new to Rust but also systems programming in general I especially appreciate that the chapters include actual reasoning about why things are how they are in Rust and that they seem pretty open about drawbacks of the choices. As well as the use of precise language instead of trying to be too cute and overly beginner friendly.<p>An example for this is the lengthy page on Strings:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;second-edition&#x2F;ch08-02-strings.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;second-edition&#x2F;ch08-02-string...</a><p>It really makes me feel you want me to understand what I&#x27;m doing from the start instead of getting a generic app out of the door as quick as possible and then tediously figure out the next basic steps from screencasts, scattered blog posts etc.<p>Also big plus for having the book and api doc available offline by default!<p>I&#x27;m going to try to come by #rustdoc and see if there something I could contribute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pleasecalllater</author><text>&gt; Also, can we please, please, please keep source code files as pure ascii? Asking as a non-native english speaker.<p>I&#x27;m a non native English speaker. That&#x27;s why I hate tools, and websites which don&#x27;t understand that people have different letters in names. Just use good tools.</text></comment> |
5,473,215 | 5,473,040 | 1 | 3 | 5,471,808 | train | <story><title>Analyzing mbostock's queue.js</title><url>http://bsumm.net/2013/03/31/analyzing-mbostocks-queue-js.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbostock</author><text>This is great! Thank you for the code review. One of the aspects of Google culture that I enjoyed the most were the asynchronous, detailed code reviews. Knowing that someone you look up to will pore over every line of code encourages you to get both the big picture and the details right. That happens with less regularity in open-source, although it’s been a pleasure working with brilliant people such as Jason Davies. So I appreciate this review greatly; it helps not just explain the code but encourages me to do better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Analyzing mbostock's queue.js</title><url>http://bsumm.net/2013/03/31/analyzing-mbostocks-queue-js.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aqrashik</author><text>Paul Irish's "10 Things I Learned From the jQuery Source" is also a really good analysis of the jQuery Source, particularly for people still getting started with Javascript.<p>It's available at <a href="http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquery-source/" rel="nofollow">http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquer...</a> and should be interesting to people who liked this link</text></comment> |
20,523,590 | 20,522,849 | 1 | 2 | 20,521,815 | train | <story><title>How Weight Training Might Change the Brain</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/well/move/how-weight-training-changes-the-brain.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>I&#x27;m the opposite for hardcore engineers. An in-shape, muscular person looks like they have dedicated a non-trivial amount of time to not software. I presume most people that look like that just see writing software as &quot;a job&quot; and won&#x27;t be as capable of fully owning anything more complex than small portions of a complex application.</text></item><item><author>fortran77</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure. Even though I don&#x27;t want to admit it, I&#x27;m sure I, along with many others, would have more confidence in a fit, muscular person than an out-of-shape slovenly one.</text></item><item><author>leet_thow</author><text>On the social comparison note, I don&#x27;t regret 8 years of constant training in the least, however I do suspect that if you do add a lot of musculature to a tall frame it can be a bit intimidating in engineering cultures where most men are out of shape and view the activity as &quot;meatheadish.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dirtyid</author><text>Serious lifting or athletics in general necessitates cultivating competent time management, planning skills and self control&#x2F;discipline. Even more so if you roll into dieting for maintaining weight class or generally aesthetics. Once a lifter exhaust all novice and easy gains which doesn&#x27;t take long, it&#x27;s down to planning multi week&#x2F;month long meso cycles, trouble shooting and learning about about your body, refraining from immediate gratification - i.e. goal setting, developing weaknesses, fatigue management - just generally embracing slow and steady progress. It&#x27;s one of the few hobbies that can&#x27;t be rushed.<p>That said, most people never get this serious and conscientiousness is what separates a long lifting career and snapcity (injury). A whole heap of genetics as well, since people who are genetically gifted at lifting tend to self select for staying in the hobby. Instagram culture also doesn&#x27;t help if your psychologically prone to social comparison. Finally if you progress far enough, there the cost-benefit ratio shifts from health to strength, from experience, some sort of injury is almost guaranteed. It&#x27;s really one of those things that should be embraced in moderation for the general population. Moderation is really all you need, people only need to develop some function strength and musculature for health benefits. You don&#x27;t need to deadlift 600 pounds to inoculate your hips from shattering after a fall, indeed the road to 600+ will probably messy you up in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fiblye</author><text>Your ideal engineer seems to be someone who devotes their life to your business at the cost of their personal health and betterment. Someone who’ll burn out when they realize their employer only sees them as a tool to be used and having any personal life or hobbies comes at the cost of their boss not making record profits every quarter.<p>Nearly every notably brilliant programmer out there has other pursuits. You need to diversify your interests for your health and to gain inspiration from outside sources. Locking yourself into a bubble of software only makes you miss out on the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Weight Training Might Change the Brain</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/well/move/how-weight-training-changes-the-brain.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>I&#x27;m the opposite for hardcore engineers. An in-shape, muscular person looks like they have dedicated a non-trivial amount of time to not software. I presume most people that look like that just see writing software as &quot;a job&quot; and won&#x27;t be as capable of fully owning anything more complex than small portions of a complex application.</text></item><item><author>fortran77</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure. Even though I don&#x27;t want to admit it, I&#x27;m sure I, along with many others, would have more confidence in a fit, muscular person than an out-of-shape slovenly one.</text></item><item><author>leet_thow</author><text>On the social comparison note, I don&#x27;t regret 8 years of constant training in the least, however I do suspect that if you do add a lot of musculature to a tall frame it can be a bit intimidating in engineering cultures where most men are out of shape and view the activity as &quot;meatheadish.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dirtyid</author><text>Serious lifting or athletics in general necessitates cultivating competent time management, planning skills and self control&#x2F;discipline. Even more so if you roll into dieting for maintaining weight class or generally aesthetics. Once a lifter exhaust all novice and easy gains which doesn&#x27;t take long, it&#x27;s down to planning multi week&#x2F;month long meso cycles, trouble shooting and learning about about your body, refraining from immediate gratification - i.e. goal setting, developing weaknesses, fatigue management - just generally embracing slow and steady progress. It&#x27;s one of the few hobbies that can&#x27;t be rushed.<p>That said, most people never get this serious and conscientiousness is what separates a long lifting career and snapcity (injury). A whole heap of genetics as well, since people who are genetically gifted at lifting tend to self select for staying in the hobby. Instagram culture also doesn&#x27;t help if your psychologically prone to social comparison. Finally if you progress far enough, there the cost-benefit ratio shifts from health to strength, from experience, some sort of injury is almost guaranteed. It&#x27;s really one of those things that should be embraced in moderation for the general population. Moderation is really all you need, people only need to develop some function strength and musculature for health benefits. You don&#x27;t need to deadlift 600 pounds to inoculate your hips from shattering after a fall, indeed the road to 600+ will probably messy you up in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0815test</author><text>&gt; An in-shape, muscular person looks like they have dedicated a non-trivial amount of time to not software.<p>Hitting the gym can actually be pretty complementary to writing software or doing other sorts of engineering in the best possible way. For example, many people are psychologically messed up due to some sort of mental &quot;baggage&quot; that basically shows up as a somatic fight-or-flight response, albeit generally in an in-set, chronicized form rather than a literal stress reaction. This can place a significant cap on both your executive function and your self-perceived mental acuity. Hitting the gym is an <i>excellent</i>, time- and cost-effective way to work that stress out of your body and mind!</text></comment> |
10,537,969 | 10,537,836 | 1 | 3 | 10,534,172 | train | <story><title>Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-S1M7Ny_o&t=21m2s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>argonaut</author><text>Just wanted to repost this from the other thread on TensorFlow, since I joined the party a bit late:<p>I think some of the raving that&#x27;s going on is unwarranted. This is a <i>very nice</i>, very well put together library with a great landing page. It might eventually displace Torch and Theano as the standard toolkits for deep learning. It looks like it might offer performance &#x2F; portability improvements. But it does not do anything fundamentally different from what has already been done for many years with Theano and Torch (which are standard toolkits for expressing computations, usually for building neural nets) and other libraries. It is not a game-changer or a spectacular moment in history as some people seem to believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianbg</author><text>Well, it looks way more scalable than Theano or Torch while being as easy to use as Theano. I&#x27;d say that&#x27;s pretty exciting considering the number of groups working on way lower-level scalable neural nets.<p>This is &quot;not a game-changer&quot; in the same way map-reduce isn&#x27;t a game-changer wrt for loops.<p>Also check out TensorBoard, their visualization tool (animation halfway down the page):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;tensorflow-googles-latest-machine_9.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;tensorflow-google...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-S1M7Ny_o&t=21m2s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>argonaut</author><text>Just wanted to repost this from the other thread on TensorFlow, since I joined the party a bit late:<p>I think some of the raving that&#x27;s going on is unwarranted. This is a <i>very nice</i>, very well put together library with a great landing page. It might eventually displace Torch and Theano as the standard toolkits for deep learning. It looks like it might offer performance &#x2F; portability improvements. But it does not do anything fundamentally different from what has already been done for many years with Theano and Torch (which are standard toolkits for expressing computations, usually for building neural nets) and other libraries. It is not a game-changer or a spectacular moment in history as some people seem to believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>I&#x27;m curious how the performance and scalability compares with Theano and Torch. I&#x27;m thinking the reason Google built this is that they wanted to scale computations to really large clusters (thousands, tens of thousands of machines) and the other options didn&#x27;t really cut it.</text></comment> |
28,290,225 | 28,290,553 | 1 | 2 | 28,288,760 | train | <story><title>Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?</title><url>https://jamespotter.dev/hacker-news-tech-trends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbay808</author><text>It&#x27;s a lot like predicting earthquakes right? You can measure strain and know that you&#x27;re due, but you still don&#x27;t know precisely what the trigger will be or when it will happen.<p>We don&#x27;t make such jokes about seismologists though. Why not?</text></item><item><author>em500</author><text>Regarding point 2, an old joke comes to mind: &quot;economists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions&quot;.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>1. For things like remote work, it only became a trend because of the pandemic. You would have needed to predict the pandemic to predict that management would permit remote work. It was not really a trend, but rather an emergency measure that morphed into a desirable benefit.<p>2. This only looks at successful things. We must examine unsuccessful things to see if there is any real predictive ability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>injidup</author><text>I had to break up with my Seismologist girlfriend.
She kept pointing out all my faults.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?</title><url>https://jamespotter.dev/hacker-news-tech-trends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbay808</author><text>It&#x27;s a lot like predicting earthquakes right? You can measure strain and know that you&#x27;re due, but you still don&#x27;t know precisely what the trigger will be or when it will happen.<p>We don&#x27;t make such jokes about seismologists though. Why not?</text></item><item><author>em500</author><text>Regarding point 2, an old joke comes to mind: &quot;economists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions&quot;.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>1. For things like remote work, it only became a trend because of the pandemic. You would have needed to predict the pandemic to predict that management would permit remote work. It was not really a trend, but rather an emergency measure that morphed into a desirable benefit.<p>2. This only looks at successful things. We must examine unsuccessful things to see if there is any real predictive ability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>But we do make such jokes about meteorologists.<p>I suppose it&#x27;s the matter of media exposure: unlike economists and meteorologists, seismologists aren&#x27;t constantly on TV telling us bad times are coming soon.</text></comment> |
27,269,689 | 27,267,094 | 1 | 2 | 27,264,295 | train | <story><title>Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/24/tony-hawk-skateboarding-legacy-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>honkycat</author><text>I like skateboarding a lot, watch a lot of videos on youtube. I admire Tony Hawk because you NEVER see him without his helmet.<p>But I watch other skate videos, and people will forego their helmets. i watched one taking place in New York City where a dude was jumping down a flight of stairs, crashed, and slammed his noggin on the ground, out cold. And then he took a break, went back to it, and landed the trick.<p>And everyone was cheering him on and acting like he was a hero for recovering. It was like watching a cult. I think he is a fucking idiot! If he was wearing a helmet there would not have BEEN an injury. Wear a helmet and you won&#x27;t get a concussion!<p>If you are a professional skater who chooses not to wear a helmet and encourages that culture, how many people have to get hurt before you consider it a worthy topic of discussion?<p>The solution here: Thrasher, Berrics, etc. refuse to show videos of photos with people performing without a helmet. That would clean it up overnight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>Oh boy you are gonna love Andy Anderson. Check out his Powell video. He is incredibly creative in his skating and you will never see him without his helmet.<p>Howevee as a skater myself I would rather wear a helmet on my bicycle than on my skateboard. I skate mostly flat and do things that I can more or less control. I didn&#x27;t git my head in 12+ years of akating <i>once</i> and I am not planning to start now.<p>If I would try crazier things, skate bowls or vert ramps I&#x27;d definitely reconsider : )</text></comment> | <story><title>Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/24/tony-hawk-skateboarding-legacy-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>honkycat</author><text>I like skateboarding a lot, watch a lot of videos on youtube. I admire Tony Hawk because you NEVER see him without his helmet.<p>But I watch other skate videos, and people will forego their helmets. i watched one taking place in New York City where a dude was jumping down a flight of stairs, crashed, and slammed his noggin on the ground, out cold. And then he took a break, went back to it, and landed the trick.<p>And everyone was cheering him on and acting like he was a hero for recovering. It was like watching a cult. I think he is a fucking idiot! If he was wearing a helmet there would not have BEEN an injury. Wear a helmet and you won&#x27;t get a concussion!<p>If you are a professional skater who chooses not to wear a helmet and encourages that culture, how many people have to get hurt before you consider it a worthy topic of discussion?<p>The solution here: Thrasher, Berrics, etc. refuse to show videos of photos with people performing without a helmet. That would clean it up overnight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CarVac</author><text>Reminds me of the &quot;I Love Helmets&quot; video which is a positive example.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;b9yL5usLFgY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;b9yL5usLFgY</a></text></comment> |
18,309,185 | 18,309,092 | 1 | 3 | 18,308,323 | train | <story><title>Why might reading make people myopic?</title><url>http://www.eye-tuebingen.de/the-institute/news-events/news/news-article/60-why-might-reading-make-myopic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tobr</author><text>Am I understanding this right? The choroid layer behind the retina gets slightly thinner when we look at dark details on a bright background, and slightly thicker when we look at bright details on a dark background, and somehow this causes an opposite effect in the overall eye growth over time. So spending a lot of time looking at dark letters on a bright background would cause the eye to become too long and unable to focus on objects far away.<p>Is there an explanation for why the choroid changes its thickness, and why this change would create an opposite effect in eye growth over a longer period?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why might reading make people myopic?</title><url>http://www.eye-tuebingen.de/the-institute/news-events/news/news-article/60-why-might-reading-make-myopic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>When I was a teenager I preferred white text on a black background. (Think of the DOS terminal.)<p>In my very early 20s, I suddenly found white text on a black background <i>extremely</i> irritating. Suddenly, my vision was filled with persisting horizontal lines. (Like what you get when you look quickly at a light bulb.)<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because DOS was really grey on black, but on the web, people typically do bright white on black?</text></comment> |
18,608,100 | 18,606,707 | 1 | 2 | 18,593,311 | train | <story><title>Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/are-there-bacteria-in-your-brain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text><i>I’ve studied schizophrenia for virtually my whole professional career. I do that by looking at synaptic differences and pathology that might be present in schizophrenic post-mortem brains. Over the years I would see these unknown objects, and disregard them. Then I had an undergraduate student who was part of an honors program here at the University of Alabama, Courtney Walker. She was studying the substantia nigra, which is a region of the brain that contains dopamine neurons. She kept seeing these objects—we called them “those things”—and kept poking at the problem. It started to become a lab obsession.</i><p>Many aspiring scientists view their lack of experience as a problem to be solved.<p>But as this case shows, inexperience can be an asset. Not being entirely convinced of what&#x27;s impossible is a critical component of making discoveries. The longer you&#x27;re in a field, the harder it is to maintain skepticism about the impossible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/are-there-bacteria-in-your-brain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>merricksb</author><text>Different article in different publication about the same topic, discussed here 22 days ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18431850" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18431850</a></text></comment> |
33,243,020 | 33,242,131 | 1 | 2 | 33,240,701 | train | <story><title>How to become a pirate archivist</title><url>http://annas-blog.org/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archivist.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est</author><text>&gt; which was under directory &#x2F;home&#x2F;ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username<p>Ha, my home dir is always called &quot;me&quot; or &quot;and&quot;. Try google that.</text></item><item><author>ynno</author><text>I think Alexandra Elbakyan actually did not want to be revealed as the librarian behind Sci-Hub, it was her poor opsec that led to her being identified.<p>Basically her servers were set up to emit detailed error messages from PHP, including full path of faulting source file, which was under directory &#x2F;home&#x2F;ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username she had online on an unrelated site, attached to her real name. Before this revelation, she was anonymous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NaturalPhallacy</author><text>This is deep infosec. Instead of security through obscurity, it&#x27;s security through ubiquity.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to become a pirate archivist</title><url>http://annas-blog.org/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archivist.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est</author><text>&gt; which was under directory &#x2F;home&#x2F;ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username<p>Ha, my home dir is always called &quot;me&quot; or &quot;and&quot;. Try google that.</text></item><item><author>ynno</author><text>I think Alexandra Elbakyan actually did not want to be revealed as the librarian behind Sci-Hub, it was her poor opsec that led to her being identified.<p>Basically her servers were set up to emit detailed error messages from PHP, including full path of faulting source file, which was under directory &#x2F;home&#x2F;ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username she had online on an unrelated site, attached to her real name. Before this revelation, she was anonymous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>People might be able to, now!</text></comment> |
25,829,595 | 25,829,306 | 1 | 2 | 25,829,126 | train | <story><title>Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry</title><url>https://www.subscriptioninsider.com/topics/business-operations/amazon-permanently-shuts-down-prime-pantry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bootlooped</author><text>I had said many times Amazon had too many ways to order groceries:<p>1. Amazon.com<p>2. Amazon Prime Pantry<p>3. Amazon Fresh<p>4. Whole Foods via Amazon Prime Now<p>5. Amazon items via Amazon Prime Now*<p>*I never figured out what exactly this was. Was it just Amazon.com listing reproduced in the Prime Now app? Was it Amazon Fresh and&#x2F;or Prime Pantry items? Was it some other set of items?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkhalil</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget, Subscribe and Save. Prime Pantry had a subscription service too, so people were very confused about what to do - Prime Pantry or Subscribe and Save - and what saves the most money. Also, with Subscribe and Save, it was and still is* confusing as to WHO the product is bought from. On low-profit price-flucting products (e.g. Case of Redbull), the price will differ AND sometimes it will be unavialable via the subscibed listing but if you searched for the item, you&#x27;d find it Prime from Amazon. The opposite also happens, when Amazon.com is clearly out of an item, yet somehow your subscribtion still makes it on time.<p>Honestly, just typing all that made me very confused.<p>At the end of the day, I don&#x27;t care from who (as long as they&#x27;re reputable) or how, just get me my product, in this price range, this many times per period.<p>*: I still use Subscribe and Safe for the 15% discount - a nice discount if 5 subscriptions are due in the same month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry</title><url>https://www.subscriptioninsider.com/topics/business-operations/amazon-permanently-shuts-down-prime-pantry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bootlooped</author><text>I had said many times Amazon had too many ways to order groceries:<p>1. Amazon.com<p>2. Amazon Prime Pantry<p>3. Amazon Fresh<p>4. Whole Foods via Amazon Prime Now<p>5. Amazon items via Amazon Prime Now*<p>*I never figured out what exactly this was. Was it just Amazon.com listing reproduced in the Prime Now app? Was it Amazon Fresh and&#x2F;or Prime Pantry items? Was it some other set of items?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>Exactly. I use Prime all the time but never have sorted out the grocery stuff, so I use Instacart.<p>I did once try something that iirc was Pantry. I searched for Pantry items, they mixed in a bunch of stuff that wasn&#x27;t Pantry but wasn&#x27;t obvious about that, and after I filled my shopping cart with various items they wanted to charge me lots of extra shipping. So I backed out and didn&#x27;t bother with it anymore.</text></comment> |
12,656,534 | 12,655,683 | 1 | 2 | 12,654,277 | train | <story><title>What it's like buying a $128k side project</title><url>http://blog.codetree.com/articles/what-its-like-buying-a-128k-side-project.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>It&#x27;s great to read the details about what it takes to buy a small business. Thanks for posting this and being so open about what went into the negotiation. I always thought (if I were to one day run into money) buying an already-running business would be a better, less risky path towards entrepreneurship than starting with a blank text editor!<p>A few questions:<p>Is it common to have to fork over all cash for these sized deals? Is it possible&#x2F;acceptable to finance? What alternatives to seller financing have you seen? I don&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;s possible to just waltz into your local bank and say hi guys I need $100K to buy a website!<p>I&#x27;d be interested in learning more about finding these deals. You found this one through FE. Are there other common places to find tech listings? Do you ever approach companies that you like but aren&#x27;t actively looking to sell? I&#x27;d love to see a play by play of how one of those conversations go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rstocker99</author><text>kareemm has already answered the questions about financing but I actually think your second question about &quot;where to find these deals&quot; is really the more interesting and important question. The obvious answer is places like FE where we found Codetree but that was a total fluke and it&#x27;s not the right way to approach it.<p>The truth of the matter is that many business are for sale if you ask. The right approach is to think about the type of business you want to buy, build a list of all of the ones that fit and to cold email them and see if they&#x27;d be interested in selling. Basically the same approach you&#x27;d take if you were trying to sell B2B software i.e. Predictable Revenue style.<p>I can already hear people saying, &quot;No way people don&#x27;t do that&quot; or &quot;That would never work&quot; but it does and people do. In fact we know a number of people that bought their businesses using that approach and it is exactly what we were about to start doing before Codetree fell in our laps. It&#x27;s also the way that a lot of PE, VC and search fund deals get done.</text></comment> | <story><title>What it's like buying a $128k side project</title><url>http://blog.codetree.com/articles/what-its-like-buying-a-128k-side-project.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>It&#x27;s great to read the details about what it takes to buy a small business. Thanks for posting this and being so open about what went into the negotiation. I always thought (if I were to one day run into money) buying an already-running business would be a better, less risky path towards entrepreneurship than starting with a blank text editor!<p>A few questions:<p>Is it common to have to fork over all cash for these sized deals? Is it possible&#x2F;acceptable to finance? What alternatives to seller financing have you seen? I don&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;s possible to just waltz into your local bank and say hi guys I need $100K to buy a website!<p>I&#x27;d be interested in learning more about finding these deals. You found this one through FE. Are there other common places to find tech listings? Do you ever approach companies that you like but aren&#x27;t actively looking to sell? I&#x27;d love to see a play by play of how one of those conversations go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>charlesdm</author><text>&gt; Is it common to have to fork over all cash for these sized deals? Is it possible&#x2F;acceptable to finance? What alternatives to seller financing have you seen? I don&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;s possible to just waltz into your local bank and say hi guys I need $100K to buy a website!<p>I&#x27;ve discussed this with my local Belgian bank (well, not $100k, closer to $1-1.5m), and they&#x27;d be happy to do it if I put up 25-30% of the capital. So should definitely be doable. The issue is finding a good and viable asset that won&#x27;t deteriorate. Usually there&#x27;s a reason why people sell.</text></comment> |
18,235,948 | 18,235,969 | 1 | 3 | 18,234,626 | train | <story><title>Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/facebook-lured-advertisers-by-inflating-ad-watch-times-up-to-900-percent-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2012</author><text>I am a direct response marketer, and only manage ad campaigns that provably generate revenue. Over $10,000,000 spend across more than a dozen companies. I can tell you that for many products Facebook absolutely outperforms Google.</text></item><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>A billion dollar business relying such a shallow dark-ui technique for it&#x27;s main source of revenue.<p>The state of marketing departments in companies must be a joke if this is how Facebook and Twitter are milking them.<p>I imagine billions of dollars are being wasted in companies with no return value in the name of &quot;marketing&quot;.<p>And if anyone ever thinks Facebook and Twitter are actual competition to Google in ad market they must be out of their minds.</text></item><item><author>gk1</author><text>Pretty sure Twitter has an ad metrics problem too. As I wrote last year:<p>&gt; When I ran a Twitter Ads campaign for one of my clients, within two days I noticed that Google Analytics was reporting nearly 100% fewer visitors from the campaign than Twitter was reporting clicks. That is, if Twitter counted (and charged for) 100 clicks, Google Analytics showed fewer than 5 visitors from the campaign.<p>&gt; The support team at Twitter Ads told me they are legitimate clicks, but people are probably clicking the image in the tweet to expand the tweet or image, not expecting it to take them to a different site. As soon as they realize they’ve just clicked an outgoing link, they go back or close the tab before our site and Google Analytics script even has time to load.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gkogan.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-ad-campaigns-fail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gkogan.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-ad-campaigns-fail&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cstejerean</author><text>I’m not surprised. Google shows me ads for things I’m searching for, but Facebook shows me ads for things I wouldn’t even know to look for. I can definitely see how one or the other would be better depending on the type of product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/facebook-lured-advertisers-by-inflating-ad-watch-times-up-to-900-percent-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2012</author><text>I am a direct response marketer, and only manage ad campaigns that provably generate revenue. Over $10,000,000 spend across more than a dozen companies. I can tell you that for many products Facebook absolutely outperforms Google.</text></item><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>A billion dollar business relying such a shallow dark-ui technique for it&#x27;s main source of revenue.<p>The state of marketing departments in companies must be a joke if this is how Facebook and Twitter are milking them.<p>I imagine billions of dollars are being wasted in companies with no return value in the name of &quot;marketing&quot;.<p>And if anyone ever thinks Facebook and Twitter are actual competition to Google in ad market they must be out of their minds.</text></item><item><author>gk1</author><text>Pretty sure Twitter has an ad metrics problem too. As I wrote last year:<p>&gt; When I ran a Twitter Ads campaign for one of my clients, within two days I noticed that Google Analytics was reporting nearly 100% fewer visitors from the campaign than Twitter was reporting clicks. That is, if Twitter counted (and charged for) 100 clicks, Google Analytics showed fewer than 5 visitors from the campaign.<p>&gt; The support team at Twitter Ads told me they are legitimate clicks, but people are probably clicking the image in the tweet to expand the tweet or image, not expecting it to take them to a different site. As soon as they realize they’ve just clicked an outgoing link, they go back or close the tab before our site and Google Analytics script even has time to load.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gkogan.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-ad-campaigns-fail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gkogan.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-ad-campaigns-fail&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artificial</author><text>$10m monthly? What type of products? For example I’m in Automotive and the inverse is true @ $4m&#x2F;mo.</text></comment> |
17,847,419 | 17,846,894 | 1 | 2 | 17,846,387 | train | <story><title>WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review-fast-connections-amaze-but-windows-support-needs-to-happen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pimeys</author><text>Having been running WireGuard in my router for a couple of months now I have to say it&#x27;s just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty and a very easy setup. Now I have IPv6 through the VPN, all traffic from the house is routed through anonymous servers and I&#x27;ve had no problems with the connection dropping. Very nice work here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>&gt; I have to say it&#x27;s just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty<p>By protocol design it incurs a 4%-~50% (1500 byte and 64 byte packets respectively) bandwidth penalty over the internet due to headers. The encryption of the payload is extremely fast though.</text></comment> | <story><title>WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review-fast-connections-amaze-but-windows-support-needs-to-happen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pimeys</author><text>Having been running WireGuard in my router for a couple of months now I have to say it&#x27;s just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty and a very easy setup. Now I have IPv6 through the VPN, all traffic from the house is routed through anonymous servers and I&#x27;ve had no problems with the connection dropping. Very nice work here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corybrown</author><text>What router do you have that lets you run wire guard?</text></comment> |
23,993,195 | 23,992,942 | 1 | 3 | 23,992,214 | train | <story><title>LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lifelabs-data-breach-1.5667618</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>Is there a reason why we can&#x27;t have strict liability laws for data breaches? Seems like every time companies get off because proving negligence or damages is too hard. If you get hacked, you should pay $x per affected individual. No more &quot;we did our best, but it was a Sophisticated Attack™ carried out by a nation state&#x2F;APT, so plz don&#x27;t fine us&quot;. Imagine if companies could use this logic if they lost physical goods. eg. if a bank got robbed, they shouldn&#x27;t be able to say &quot;well they were a really sophisticated crew of bank robbers, so there goes your deposit!&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lifelabs-data-breach-1.5667618</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brutus1213</author><text>Canadian here. This lifelabs breach is a national travesty. Compared to the ruckus the opposition made for the We charity situation, why are they not after these guys? This really disgusts me about our political system today .. if you can score points against your opposition, go full-on guns blazing. If it actually is of consequence to citizens, meh.</text></comment> |
16,994,423 | 16,993,194 | 1 | 2 | 16,992,085 | train | <story><title>Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>As someone who has a PhD in biochemistry and has been coding since age 5, I find the headline rediculous. You won&#x27;t be computing in biology. Consider, a transistor is about 50-100 <i>atoms</i> wide. A protein, which cannot itself even be a minimal unit of compute, (maybe a molecular transistor like NiFe hydrogenase has a shot) is already bigger than that.<p>The things described in the article are not biology used for computation, but principles from CS applied to biology which has some validity. In one case I achieved strides in protein design by reducing the engineering cycle from months to days. Imagine hitting &quot;compile&quot; and having to wait a 72 hours to know your result. That&#x27;s biology, even with a fast organism like yeast or e coli.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;As someone who has a PhD in biochemistry and has been coding since age 5, I find the headline rediculous. You won&#x27;t be computing in biology.... principles from CS applied to biology which has some validity.&quot;<p>I think it may be worth reminding people that modern-day computing is only a subset of computation, and not even necessarily a very large one. Computing with biology has <i>extremely</i> different characteristics from computing with modern computers, and the field of Software Engineering may not have much to say about it except in the vaguest of terms, but <i>Computer Science</i> may still have quite a lot to say about the limits of computation on this new substrate, how to do error correction, and all sorts of other things.<p>A computational formalism can easily be applied to something like an anti-body, and of course, anything larger than that. The primary thing that stops us is the fact that we have such a poor picture of what is going on that we don&#x27;t have the data to create the formalisms correctly, nor machines (biological or otherwise) to manipulate such formalisms. But that&#x27;s a human limitation and in some sense an <i>engineering</i> limitation, not a limitation of Computer Science.<p>Whatever we are coding in biology will be radically, radically different. Entire classes of squabbles in our industry become irrelevant; you won&#x27;t get a concurrency choice (it&#x27;s just &quot;yes, all the time and everywhere&quot;), there will be no meaningful debate over mutability (again, &quot;yes all the time and everywhere&quot;), &quot;structured programming&quot; is just meaningless since the entire concept of &quot;scope&quot; will be out the window. I don&#x27;t know what it <i>will</i> look like. But I do know that whatever it is, quite a bit of Computer Science will still apply to it. Biological computing will not be immune to information theory. It won&#x27;t be immune to complexity theory, although a whole new suite of classes will probably have to arise, and there will be a lot more probability in it (but recall that complexity theory already extensively uses that, so it&#x27;s not like that&#x27;s a new thing). And even software engineering won&#x27;t be <i>entirely</i> tossed out... for instance, &quot;leaky abstractions&quot; will be an even bigger problem than they are for us now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>As someone who has a PhD in biochemistry and has been coding since age 5, I find the headline rediculous. You won&#x27;t be computing in biology. Consider, a transistor is about 50-100 <i>atoms</i> wide. A protein, which cannot itself even be a minimal unit of compute, (maybe a molecular transistor like NiFe hydrogenase has a shot) is already bigger than that.<p>The things described in the article are not biology used for computation, but principles from CS applied to biology which has some validity. In one case I achieved strides in protein design by reducing the engineering cycle from months to days. Imagine hitting &quot;compile&quot; and having to wait a 72 hours to know your result. That&#x27;s biology, even with a fast organism like yeast or e coli.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>&gt; Imagine hitting &quot;compile&quot; and having to wait a 72 hours to know your result.<p>You mean, something like giving a deck of cards to a computing center operator and eventually getting back a printout of the outcome a few days later?</text></comment> |
18,271,202 | 18,271,249 | 1 | 2 | 18,270,571 | train | <story><title>Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-accused-of-overpricing-restricting-device-repairs-1.4859099</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grezql</author><text>While we’re at it.
I pay 30% cut of my app revenues to Apple.
So for every sale i end up with 40% in pocket rest to Apple and government taxes.<p>EU should look into their app fees</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-accused-of-overpricing-restricting-device-repairs-1.4859099</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomcam</author><text>I buy about $20,000 worth of Apple gear annually, and I have noticed they are beginning not to honor AppleCare events.</text></comment> |
37,449,159 | 37,447,964 | 1 | 2 | 37,415,804 | train | <story><title>Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drexlspivey</author><text>ARM is preparing to IPO next week, their main business is collecting license fees. Here are last year’s income statement:<p>Revenue: $2.67B (down from 2.7)<p>Gross profit margin: 96%<p>Net Profit: $524m<p>And they are planning to IPO at a valuation of 60-70 billion dollars! Thats a P&#x2F;E of 130 and a P&#x2F;S of 25. Frankly this is ridiculous for a company that collects license fees, there is no potential for massive growth, all smartphones are using ARM chips already and their biggest client has a perpetual license already. Why is it valued like a tech startup?<p>This is Softbank dumping on retail and they somehow got Apple and Intel to buy a small piece of the IPO (700m combined).</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roughly</author><text>To be honest, it’s a little hard to really take this seriously. The number of times I’ve watched Intel make Serious Declarations of Significant Strategic Realignments in the last decade or so only to watch them inevitably shed all the new divisions and product lines to Focus On Core Products makes it hard to really give this the attention it might warrant.</text></comment> |
8,052,907 | 8,052,804 | 1 | 2 | 8,052,599 | train | <story><title>Kindle Unlimited</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leviathan</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why, when content is digital and distribution doesn&#x27;t cost anything extra, things like this are restricted to specific countries.</text></item><item><author>kenny_r</author><text>Very saddened by this:<p><pre><code> We&#x27;re sorry. Kindle Unlimited is currently only available for US customers.
Please visit us again when it is available in your country.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>Contracts.<p>See this explanation by author Charlie Stross:
<a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/07/some-rambling-thoughts-on-regi.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.antipope.org&#x2F;charlie&#x2F;blog-static&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;some-ram...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kindle Unlimited</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leviathan</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why, when content is digital and distribution doesn&#x27;t cost anything extra, things like this are restricted to specific countries.</text></item><item><author>kenny_r</author><text>Very saddened by this:<p><pre><code> We&#x27;re sorry. Kindle Unlimited is currently only available for US customers.
Please visit us again when it is available in your country.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>It&#x27;s legal, not technical restrictions.</text></comment> |
17,507,365 | 17,507,488 | 1 | 2 | 17,504,366 | train | <story><title>Causal Inference Book</title><url>https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kgwgk</author><text>Also in the recent and upcoming releases in &quot;causality&quot; department: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;business&#x2F;dealbook&#x2F;review-the-book-of-why-examines-the-science-of-cause-and-effect.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;business&#x2F;dealbook&#x2F;review-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Causal Inference Book</title><url>https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>&gt; Jamie Robins and I are working on a book that provides a cohesive presentation of concepts of, and methods for, causal inference. Much of this material is currently scattered across journals in several disciplines or confined to technical articles. We expect that the book will be of interest to anyone interested in causal inference, e.g., epidemiologists, statisticians, psychologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, computer scientists...<p>I&#x27;m a bit surprised that there isn&#x27;t already a &quot;cohesive presentation&quot;, both for teaching and as a resource for practitioners. (Of course, that seems to be when books are written, when the need suddenly seems obvious.) Would any scientists, etc. comment on how the topic is currently taught and what reference is used? Or am I misunderstanding the nature of the topic, such as its significance or generality? Has something changed?</text></comment> |
19,759,169 | 19,734,104 | 1 | 3 | 19,728,132 | train | <story><title>I Sell Onions on the Internet</title><url>https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>Moments of whimsy are some of the most important. It was a moment of whimsy that led to me studying abroad in college, and another moment of whimsy that led me to meet my wife while I was there. Couldn&#x27;t have been more than 5 total minutes of thoughts no more complicated than &quot;yeah, I guess I&#x27;ll give it a go&quot; that shaped my entire life.<p>And yet, I can spend another 5 minutes in the grocery store agonizing over which of two near-identical bags of chips to buy. Funny how that goes.</text></item><item><author>Panino</author><text>&gt; I backordered the domain as a spectator, but for kicks &amp; giggles, I dropped in a bid around $2,200 ’cause I was confident I’d be outbid.<p>It&#x27;s funny and beautiful how a moment of whimsy ends up being a fulcrum point in his life.<p>It seems there&#x27;s a lot of interest in gardening &#x2F; food production among tech people. For me, one of the reasons I love gardening is because in many ways it&#x27;s totally different from working inside with machines, but there are important and unexpected overlaps. For example if you have a solid understanding of the OSI model which informs your method of system design, you can easily move into gardening where knowledge of the layers of a forest plays a similar role. Having this experience in tech makes it easy to zero in on similar structural principles in gardening, learn about them, and <i>apply</i> that knowledge whereas many others clearly don&#x27;t.<p>Just like a person who doesn&#x27;t understand the value of a proper foundation in tech (hardware, lower protocols like DNS, etc.), a similar gardener won&#x27;t first seek to build strong healthy soil, and they will constantly fight against nature rather than work with it, doing more work while getting fewer results.<p>As an aside, regarding onions: last year I cut off some green onion bottoms from the store and put them in the ground (including the little roots). They grew back and gave several more green onion harvests before winter set in, and now they&#x27;re back on their own! Permanent green onion. You can do this with a number of plants, btw. Try it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piccolbo</author><text>Check survivorship bias. The name refers to deadly scenarios, but what is fundamental to it is a bias in reporting that depends on the outcome of interest. The concept was first hammered out observing that warplanes never got hit in the engines -- well, the ones that made it back at least. Some people thought the areas with the most damage should be protected. Wald thought otherwise and it&#x27;s him who is remembered to this day. &quot;Moments of whimsy&quot; are like anti-aircraft ammo. They hit everywhere, randomly. But we only report those that are associated with a life change.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Sell Onions on the Internet</title><url>https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>Moments of whimsy are some of the most important. It was a moment of whimsy that led to me studying abroad in college, and another moment of whimsy that led me to meet my wife while I was there. Couldn&#x27;t have been more than 5 total minutes of thoughts no more complicated than &quot;yeah, I guess I&#x27;ll give it a go&quot; that shaped my entire life.<p>And yet, I can spend another 5 minutes in the grocery store agonizing over which of two near-identical bags of chips to buy. Funny how that goes.</text></item><item><author>Panino</author><text>&gt; I backordered the domain as a spectator, but for kicks &amp; giggles, I dropped in a bid around $2,200 ’cause I was confident I’d be outbid.<p>It&#x27;s funny and beautiful how a moment of whimsy ends up being a fulcrum point in his life.<p>It seems there&#x27;s a lot of interest in gardening &#x2F; food production among tech people. For me, one of the reasons I love gardening is because in many ways it&#x27;s totally different from working inside with machines, but there are important and unexpected overlaps. For example if you have a solid understanding of the OSI model which informs your method of system design, you can easily move into gardening where knowledge of the layers of a forest plays a similar role. Having this experience in tech makes it easy to zero in on similar structural principles in gardening, learn about them, and <i>apply</i> that knowledge whereas many others clearly don&#x27;t.<p>Just like a person who doesn&#x27;t understand the value of a proper foundation in tech (hardware, lower protocols like DNS, etc.), a similar gardener won&#x27;t first seek to build strong healthy soil, and they will constantly fight against nature rather than work with it, doing more work while getting fewer results.<p>As an aside, regarding onions: last year I cut off some green onion bottoms from the store and put them in the ground (including the little roots). They grew back and gave several more green onion harvests before winter set in, and now they&#x27;re back on their own! Permanent green onion. You can do this with a number of plants, btw. Try it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retra</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that just confirmation bias though? If you hadn&#x27;t made those decisions you just as likely could have met someone else some other way, married them and been just as happy or successful.</text></comment> |
13,197,629 | 13,197,453 | 1 | 2 | 13,196,605 | train | <story><title>Web Fundamentals</title><url>https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kinlan</author><text>Owner of the site here:<p>We do need to update the landing page, we&#x27;ve gone through many updates over the two years that this site has been out and I think this page doesn&#x27;t explain what Web Fundamentals site is.<p>Our goal with this section is to explain the fundamentals of web development from the platform upwards with opinionated best practice guidance.<p>We are constantly adding new content for new areas of the web (like push notifications) and refactoring guidance as we learn more of how this is used in production (things change, but we base the initial guidance off how we have used it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Web Fundamentals</title><url>https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iLoch</author><text>&quot;Web fundamentals&quot;, headlined by Web Push Notifications. Good to know where Google&#x27;s head is at.</text></comment> |
17,871,478 | 17,871,138 | 1 | 3 | 17,869,249 | train | <story><title>Bye bye BetterSlack</title><url>https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist. Just change the name and add a disclaimer so your users know that by using your extension they are violating their acceptable use policy.<p>This is no different than any user writing a Tampermonkey script to modify any website they want to modify. Even further, this is no different than a user opening the Dev Tools console and modifying things there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist<p>Will you cover his legal costs for choosing this decision? Right matters less than resources if it&#x27;s expensive to even be right. You can state your case here on HN without repercussion, not so when being sued (it costs to even state your case reasonably due to hazards of self-defense and it costs dearly if you lose).</text></comment> | <story><title>Bye bye BetterSlack</title><url>https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist. Just change the name and add a disclaimer so your users know that by using your extension they are violating their acceptable use policy.<p>This is no different than any user writing a Tampermonkey script to modify any website they want to modify. Even further, this is no different than a user opening the Dev Tools console and modifying things there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>He should talk to a lawyer, especially if he accepted a binding agreement by using Slack that forbids any of the research he did to figure out how to get his integrations to work.</text></comment> |
39,686,567 | 39,686,709 | 1 | 2 | 39,685,894 | train | <story><title>A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/13/24070864/samotsvety-forecasting-superforecasters-tetlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The base rate arguing seems like specious reasoning. For example, if you had a volcano that erupts roughly ever 100 years, base rate reasoning using the past 99 years of data would suggest that the probability is 0 and using 1000 years of data would suggest it&#x27;s ~10% when in reality your base rate in the year following an eruption is 0 with every passing year your probability of an eruption would increase &amp; increase past 10% for every year past 100 that goes without explosion. Same goes for something like war where pressures build up and war becomes more likely rather than less. So getting judged that you&#x27;re better at predicting by giving low probabilities for rare events isn&#x27;t that insightful because you&#x27;d be outperformed by someone who predicts a black swan event because the magnitude of the event matters.<p>&gt; The prediction got some press attention and earned rejoinders from nuclear experts like Peter Scoblic, who argued it significantly understated the risk of a nuclear exchange. It was a big moment for the group — but also an example of a prediction that’s very, very difficult to get right. The further you’re straying from the ordinary course of history (and a nuclear bomb going off in London would be straying very far), the harder this is.<p>Yup, the group got it right but predicting a rare event doesn&#x27;t happen isn&#x27;t that difficult, it&#x27;s just notable because everyone was overly freaked out, particularly in the media due to self-repeated sensationalism. Peter Scoblic is correct that the risk is significantly understated because it&#x27;s not correctly adjusting for the impact of the black swan event happening (e.g. if a nuclear explosion were to occur, you&#x27;d expect nuclear retaliations).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NunoSempere</author><text>&gt; base rate reasoning using the past 99 years of data would suggest that the probability is 0<p>Looking at edge cases is good for sanity checking, so it&#x27;s a good habit, and I commend you.<p>In your example, though, we can also consider the base rate of an event which hasn&#x27;t happened in 99 years as 1&#x2F;101, per Laplace&#x27;s rule of succession. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_of_succession" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_of_succession</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/13/24070864/samotsvety-forecasting-superforecasters-tetlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The base rate arguing seems like specious reasoning. For example, if you had a volcano that erupts roughly ever 100 years, base rate reasoning using the past 99 years of data would suggest that the probability is 0 and using 1000 years of data would suggest it&#x27;s ~10% when in reality your base rate in the year following an eruption is 0 with every passing year your probability of an eruption would increase &amp; increase past 10% for every year past 100 that goes without explosion. Same goes for something like war where pressures build up and war becomes more likely rather than less. So getting judged that you&#x27;re better at predicting by giving low probabilities for rare events isn&#x27;t that insightful because you&#x27;d be outperformed by someone who predicts a black swan event because the magnitude of the event matters.<p>&gt; The prediction got some press attention and earned rejoinders from nuclear experts like Peter Scoblic, who argued it significantly understated the risk of a nuclear exchange. It was a big moment for the group — but also an example of a prediction that’s very, very difficult to get right. The further you’re straying from the ordinary course of history (and a nuclear bomb going off in London would be straying very far), the harder this is.<p>Yup, the group got it right but predicting a rare event doesn&#x27;t happen isn&#x27;t that difficult, it&#x27;s just notable because everyone was overly freaked out, particularly in the media due to self-repeated sensationalism. Peter Scoblic is correct that the risk is significantly understated because it&#x27;s not correctly adjusting for the impact of the black swan event happening (e.g. if a nuclear explosion were to occur, you&#x27;d expect nuclear retaliations).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>draaglom</author><text>I think the article focused on base rates because they&#x27;re a relatively unusual and legible &quot;trick&quot; to coming up with a forecast, but really they&#x27;re only one element of a forecast; typically a forecaster will think about many different ways to &quot;attack&quot; a question and synthesize them (somehow!). Choice of denominator for your base rate is very important also and can radically change the answer you get.<p>The sites which host these forecasting competitions correct for the bias against rare events through what&#x27;s called &quot;proper scoring&quot; rules -- there&#x27;s some specific maths to it, but the short version is that you&#x27;re exponentially rewarded for being a correct contrarian and exponentially punished for being confidently wrong.<p>There are limits to that too, of course -- the folks in the article will &quot;only&quot; have made on the order of mid hundreds to low thousands of predictions, so roughly speaking, you can expect these people to be calibrated for 1% or 0.5% odds but probably not 0.1% odds.</text></comment> |
15,843,200 | 15,841,551 | 1 | 3 | 15,841,312 | train | <story><title>Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (2013)</title><url>https://rafalcieslak.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/dynamic-linker-tricks-using-ld_preload-to-cheat-inject-features-and-investigate-programs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilk</author><text>Interesting projects that employ LD_PRELOAD:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stewartsmith&#x2F;libeatmydata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stewartsmith&#x2F;libeatmydata</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wolfcw&#x2F;libfaketime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wolfcw&#x2F;libfaketime</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cwrap.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cwrap.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dex4er&#x2F;fakechroot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dex4er&#x2F;fakechroot</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blitiri.com.ar&#x2F;p&#x2F;libfiu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blitiri.com.ar&#x2F;p&#x2F;libfiu&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paultag&#x2F;tmperamental" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paultag&#x2F;tmperamental</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (2013)</title><url>https://rafalcieslak.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/dynamic-linker-tricks-using-ld_preload-to-cheat-inject-features-and-investigate-programs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pentestercrab</author><text>There is a nice list of useful utilities called preeny that can be downloaded here[1].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zardus&#x2F;preeny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zardus&#x2F;preeny</a></text></comment> |
35,165,378 | 35,164,796 | 1 | 3 | 35,159,447 | train | <story><title>We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1635672262903750662</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Art is not the same as potato’s or furniture.<p>What is the market price for a potato?<p>What is the market price for a chair?<p>What is the price of developing an art career over 40 years? Unless you believe that art, music, poetry, literature, and the rest have no value to society then IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school…<p>…instead of you know doing the “responsible” thing and getting a CS degree so you can one day get an AI gig stealing “training data” in the name of profit</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>I think we mostly agree here, since for your brother those 10-30 years would work perfectly for him! China breaking copyright is NOT an argument that copyright is good, quite the opposite, it&#x27;s a statement of how broken it is.<p>About the inheritance I disagree, when you are a farmer and sell a potato you sell it once and then it&#x27;s gone, if you are a carpenter you make a furniture piece and sell it and its gone. Why should art be a &quot;legacy&quot; that can be kept selling forever?</text></item><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>I disagree completely.<p>My older brother decided to go to art school.<p>It wasn’t until he was 40 that his artwork started to be noticed and worth something.<p>His images have been bootlegged endlessly by Asian companies placing them on t-shirts and selling them for $5 on Etsy and every other marketplace.<p>Fortunately for him, he’s designed a very popular set of kids books that have allowed him to move out of my parents, get a place of his own, pay down debt and buy a house.<p>Intellectual property is how he takes care of his family. He should be able to at least provide for his kids college after his death if his IP still has value in the marketplace.<p>…And so should other creators.<p>Not everyone is Disney.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>&quot;Intellectual property rights&quot; is a concept made by greedy proprietors to build monopolies and keep competition out. It&#x27;s no chance it was strongly pushed by Disney, and in its current form goes against the society interests as a whole. It is sold maliciously as &quot;it incentivizes creative work&quot;, but how does &quot;life of the author + 50 years&quot; incentivize the author to keep creating? It just incentivizes them to keep exploiting.<p>Now I think we&#x27;d all agree to something more realistic to actually protect authors, like 10-30 years protection from publication. But every time someone brings &quot;copyright! IP!&quot; to ML I just laugh since it&#x27;s one of the more corrupt laws that we have currently.</text></item><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>Nobody is going to &quot;generate training data&quot; if they get precisely nothing out of it.<p>The complete disregard for intellectual property rights being exhibited by the &quot;AI&quot; community will inevitably come back to bite them in the arse one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>I purposefully put furniture because it can be a utilitarian box, or a custom carpentry art piece. Why is your brother art more valuable than a custom table? Or a delicious dish? Or the portrait I buy from the street artist that cannot rent-seek from it? With the best intention, it seems you are biased because we are talking about your brother&#x27;s lifehood (but I&#x27;m still happy to discuss politely).<p>&gt; IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school<p>Hard disagree, most of the art fields are first a passion and then a profession. People who go to art school is normally because they love it so much that they cannot imagine themselves doing something else, even though they already know it pays little. I&#x27;ve never ever heard of someone going to art school &quot;because of IP protections&quot;.<p>One of the reasons it&#x27;s so hard to make money is because there&#x27;s many people doing it as a hobby that are already great at it, and so would jump at the chance of getting <i>some</i> money for it, leaving people who want to make <i>livable</i> wages outcompeted. Which is fine, this way society as a whole benefits greatly, sure it&#x27;s unfortunate there are no more people living off it, but in exchange there are many, many amateurs experimenting and doing art, and from time to time one finds a formula that allows them to live off it (or &quot;shills&quot; to corporate).</text></comment> | <story><title>We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1635672262903750662</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Art is not the same as potato’s or furniture.<p>What is the market price for a potato?<p>What is the market price for a chair?<p>What is the price of developing an art career over 40 years? Unless you believe that art, music, poetry, literature, and the rest have no value to society then IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school…<p>…instead of you know doing the “responsible” thing and getting a CS degree so you can one day get an AI gig stealing “training data” in the name of profit</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>I think we mostly agree here, since for your brother those 10-30 years would work perfectly for him! China breaking copyright is NOT an argument that copyright is good, quite the opposite, it&#x27;s a statement of how broken it is.<p>About the inheritance I disagree, when you are a farmer and sell a potato you sell it once and then it&#x27;s gone, if you are a carpenter you make a furniture piece and sell it and its gone. Why should art be a &quot;legacy&quot; that can be kept selling forever?</text></item><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>I disagree completely.<p>My older brother decided to go to art school.<p>It wasn’t until he was 40 that his artwork started to be noticed and worth something.<p>His images have been bootlegged endlessly by Asian companies placing them on t-shirts and selling them for $5 on Etsy and every other marketplace.<p>Fortunately for him, he’s designed a very popular set of kids books that have allowed him to move out of my parents, get a place of his own, pay down debt and buy a house.<p>Intellectual property is how he takes care of his family. He should be able to at least provide for his kids college after his death if his IP still has value in the marketplace.<p>…And so should other creators.<p>Not everyone is Disney.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>&quot;Intellectual property rights&quot; is a concept made by greedy proprietors to build monopolies and keep competition out. It&#x27;s no chance it was strongly pushed by Disney, and in its current form goes against the society interests as a whole. It is sold maliciously as &quot;it incentivizes creative work&quot;, but how does &quot;life of the author + 50 years&quot; incentivize the author to keep creating? It just incentivizes them to keep exploiting.<p>Now I think we&#x27;d all agree to something more realistic to actually protect authors, like 10-30 years protection from publication. But every time someone brings &quot;copyright! IP!&quot; to ML I just laugh since it&#x27;s one of the more corrupt laws that we have currently.</text></item><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>Nobody is going to &quot;generate training data&quot; if they get precisely nothing out of it.<p>The complete disregard for intellectual property rights being exhibited by the &quot;AI&quot; community will inevitably come back to bite them in the arse one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csallen</author><text>I find it hard to believe that a society with weaker IP protections would be a society with noticeably less art. People love creating stuff and putting it out into the world, whether they can make a profit from royalties or not.<p>Of course, with weaker IP protections, there would be change. Some very specific business models that exist today would go extinct. And other business models (e.g. live performances) might see a renaissance in popularity.</text></comment> |
11,569,447 | 11,568,311 | 1 | 3 | 11,563,389 | train | <story><title>Email Isn’t the Thing We’re Bad At</title><url>https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Puts</author><text>The reason nothing has replaced email yet, even tough it&#x27;s an old and clonky protocol is because it&#x27;s an open standard and people don&#x27;t make standards any more. Today you make services (most often based on HTTP because it&#x27;s a protocol any 20yr old junior programmer can handle) that are locked in, harvesting has much data about it&#x27;s users as possible desperately hoping that it could monetize on this data one day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Email Isn’t the Thing We’re Bad At</title><url>https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>I never mark email as read, nor do I move it out of my inbox. I have something like 800k unread emails in my inbox.<p>However, I don&#x27;t need to &#x27;declare email bankruptcy&#x27; nor do I need to clear out my inbox.. I just don&#x27;t pay any attention to the read or unread status. My inbox IS my archive.<p>My system is this:<p>When I check my email, I make sure I mark the most recent email as read. Then, I look back until I find the next email marked as read. The emails between those two are the ones that are unseen.<p>I do a quick glance at the emails in between. If they look important, I read them. If they are important but I don&#x27;t want to deal with it now, I &#x27;star&#x27; it in gmail. If it isn&#x27;t important, I just don&#x27;t do anything.<p>I don&#x27;t quite get the need to have an empty inbox or to read every email.</text></comment> |
26,499,962 | 26,500,041 | 1 | 2 | 26,499,528 | train | <story><title>Spartan School (2019)</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haltingproblem</author><text>The incessant celebration of Sparta in the culture of the West is truly abhorrent. What of Sparta was worth celebrating? Their child soldiers, mass enslavement, hunting of other men, mindless wars, ......<p>They produced no literature, goods, art or bequeathed anything to posterity other than their notoriety as a brutal martial society even that is being questioned. The messy Romans were far better and interesting through their start as a monarchy, transitioning through republic and empire to end as a theological autocracy.<p>The nearest thing to Spart might be Genghis Khan&#x27;s Mongols. They Mongols were true nomads whose capital was a tent city. They left no trace of Empire but were secular and bequeathed many important technologies to the world - none of which were their invention. They neither created anything on their own nor built any civilizations but their fame for conquest and administration.<p>What did the Spartans accomplish?<p>Edit: Quite a few folks downthread are chiding me for being unaware of the Mongol&#x27;s contribution to our present society. First, I am comparing them favorably to the Spartans. Second, I have actually been to Ulan Bataar and worked in their cultural institutions preserving Mongol &quot;artefacts&quot; . I have also studied with Mongol teachers and count Mongols as friends. I counsel those counselling me based on books they have read or secondary&#x2F;tertiary source material on the internet to reconsider their assumptions. Your advice might be well intentioned but off the mark.<p>The Mongols were tremendous administrators. They were also ruthless nomads who loathed cities, civilization and all its trappings. There is no sign of Genghis&#x27; Khan&#x27;s empire anywhere on this planet. Why? His court was a tent just like his city was a tent city. He also sacked Baghdad and almost every city they came upon including killing the men and raping millions of women and burning their libraries. Yes, they imported postal systems, bureaucracy, paper and whatever else to the world but they also killed 50-100MM people and burned down cities across the middle east for no reason because they did not like them. The descendants of Genghis Khan like Taimur Lame single handedly destroyed vast swaths of Persia, Georgia, Iraq and laid waste to Northern India raising mountains of skulls along the way.<p>You can keep your postal systems and secular courts, I would like to get some of the cities they sacked and their libraries back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peteretep</author><text>I suspect that deification of a Warrior archetype is as old as civilization itself, and every society simply tries to find historical examples where the nasty reality of militarism can be conveniently white-washed away.<p>2,500 years is enough time to have passed that there aren&#x27;t any inconvenient Helots still around to ask difficult questions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spartan School (2019)</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haltingproblem</author><text>The incessant celebration of Sparta in the culture of the West is truly abhorrent. What of Sparta was worth celebrating? Their child soldiers, mass enslavement, hunting of other men, mindless wars, ......<p>They produced no literature, goods, art or bequeathed anything to posterity other than their notoriety as a brutal martial society even that is being questioned. The messy Romans were far better and interesting through their start as a monarchy, transitioning through republic and empire to end as a theological autocracy.<p>The nearest thing to Spart might be Genghis Khan&#x27;s Mongols. They Mongols were true nomads whose capital was a tent city. They left no trace of Empire but were secular and bequeathed many important technologies to the world - none of which were their invention. They neither created anything on their own nor built any civilizations but their fame for conquest and administration.<p>What did the Spartans accomplish?<p>Edit: Quite a few folks downthread are chiding me for being unaware of the Mongol&#x27;s contribution to our present society. First, I am comparing them favorably to the Spartans. Second, I have actually been to Ulan Bataar and worked in their cultural institutions preserving Mongol &quot;artefacts&quot; . I have also studied with Mongol teachers and count Mongols as friends. I counsel those counselling me based on books they have read or secondary&#x2F;tertiary source material on the internet to reconsider their assumptions. Your advice might be well intentioned but off the mark.<p>The Mongols were tremendous administrators. They were also ruthless nomads who loathed cities, civilization and all its trappings. There is no sign of Genghis&#x27; Khan&#x27;s empire anywhere on this planet. Why? His court was a tent just like his city was a tent city. He also sacked Baghdad and almost every city they came upon including killing the men and raping millions of women and burning their libraries. Yes, they imported postal systems, bureaucracy, paper and whatever else to the world but they also killed 50-100MM people and burned down cities across the middle east for no reason because they did not like them. The descendants of Genghis Khan like Taimur Lame single handedly destroyed vast swaths of Persia, Georgia, Iraq and laid waste to Northern India raising mountains of skulls along the way.<p>You can keep your postal systems and secular courts, I would like to get some of the cities they sacked and their libraries back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azernik</author><text>Note that the celebration of Sparta goes all the way back to their contemporaries in the rest of Greece. Generally, like today, their image was used as a rhetorical cudgel to beat your opponents with; usually for being too democratic, not &quot;manly&quot; enough, too attached to the civilian economy, &amp;c<p>That celebration is an expression of a long-running thread of similarly abhorrent tendencies in Western intellectual tradition.</text></comment> |
20,649,064 | 20,648,489 | 1 | 2 | 20,646,841 | train | <story><title>Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/who-owns-your-wireless-service-crooks-do/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>3xblah</author><text>I see these problems from a different angle than the usual commentators. I continue to ask myself: Why is mobile used for important things, e.g., banking, payments, etc.?<p>A great example is authenticating a person&#x27;s identity via possession of a SIM card, i.e., their mobile number. If one can switch SIM cards, then one can switch identities. This flexibility is not a flaw in mobile communications; the ease-of-use is what makes mobile so useful. However it is silly to pretend mobile is as safe as landline for all uses. Mobile may be altogether more useful than landline -- few could argue otherwise -- and at the same time it can be entirely inappropriate for use in important things like banking. This concept seems non-existant. Instead the prevailing thinking is all-or-nothing.<p>In addition to &quot;convenience&quot;, mobile has introduced a new class of problems when used for important things like banking and payments. These problems either do not exist or exist at a much lower scale with respect to landline. Who owns landline service? Crooks?<p>From where I stand, the risks of using mobile for important transactions outweigh the benefits. Unfortunately, I also see that &quot;convenience&quot; continues to prevail over common sense. I am willing to sacrafice convenience for peace of mind. Meanwhile banks and others push harder and harder for customers to use mobile, including as a means of verifying identity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/who-owns-your-wireless-service-crooks-do/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nimbius</author><text>As a personal hacking project in my spare time, I switched from T-Mobile to anveo and an asterisk setup. I can send and receive SMS on my server and can make WiFi calls on my phone. SMS gets sent to my email as well. This costs maybe $45 USD a year. I&#x27;ve thought about documenting my setup but I don&#x27;t know if there is any interest.</text></comment> |
11,021,672 | 11,021,897 | 1 | 2 | 11,020,883 | train | <story><title>Militia Radio Frequencies</title><url>https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; MURS is the longest range VHF radio service that can be legally utilized by anyone without the need for a radio license.<p>The operator does not need a license, but I believe that the radio must be certified for MURS operation. The Baofeng UV-5R is not [1]. It is certified under Part 90. MURS requires certification under Part 95.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gordonwestradioschool.com&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC_Part_90_Certification_Baofeng_UV5R.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gordonwestradioschool.com&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC_Part_90...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apaprocki</author><text>In addition, GMRS requires an FCC license.[1] Just because the Baofeng allows you to access the frequencies doesn&#x27;t mean that you can legally transmit on them. I wonder if this is their Capone-tax-evasion-style Achilles&#x27; heel. Enforce those FCC regs! :P<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;general-mobile-radio-service-gmrs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;general-mobile-radio-service-gmr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Militia Radio Frequencies</title><url>https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; MURS is the longest range VHF radio service that can be legally utilized by anyone without the need for a radio license.<p>The operator does not need a license, but I believe that the radio must be certified for MURS operation. The Baofeng UV-5R is not [1]. It is certified under Part 90. MURS requires certification under Part 95.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gordonwestradioschool.com&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC_Part_90_Certification_Baofeng_UV5R.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gordonwestradioschool.com&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC_Part_90...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>To my knowledge you are correct. Although I kind of hope the rules get reworked a little. As a public service volunteer, it would be beneficial to be able to operate on many services with one radio, and many modern radios are capable of being &quot;good citizens&quot; on multiple services simultaneously.<p>(For example, we operate on Part 90, but may interact with members of the public who are carrying a Part 95 radio. Luckily as a ham, I believe I can at least operate my Part 90 radio on Part 97 bands.)</text></comment> |
29,468,375 | 29,468,256 | 1 | 2 | 29,465,729 | train | <story><title>Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests</title><url>https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>I do not believe I suggested doing anything against the ToS. I think you&#x27;re misinterpreting the clause. But not being a lawyer, I don&#x27;t really want to get into that discussion.<p>If I didn&#x27;t state upfront that I was the tech lead of Workers, someone would (rightly) call me out for astroturfing.</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>Sure, but you self-identified as someone responsible for the project and then suggested people go violate the ToS by running their own benchmarks. I think the community here calling out the double standards and asking for an update&#x2F;response is entirely fair. If you didn&#x27;t want the flak then leave off the &quot;I&#x27;m <i>the</i> tech lead on CF workers&quot; intro. Seems to me like the ball is in your court to at least try and make your advice actionable.</text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>To be clear my comment here is not in any way, shape, or form, Cloudflare&#x27;s response. I am here representing only myself.</text></item><item><author>dwwoelfel</author><text>It has been two weeks since Fastly&#x27;s VP of Eng called out your ToS and errors in your benchmark in her original tweet thread [1]. I would hope that Cloudflare would have a better response than this that directly addresses Fastly&#x27;s claims.<p>Are you going to remove the ToS clause or issue a correction on the blog post?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lxt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1462896850055352320" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lxt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1462896850055352320</a></text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>OK...<p>So, I&#x27;m the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers. In complete honestly, I did not even know we ran some sort of comparison benchmark with Compute@Edge until Fastly complained about it, nor did I know about our ToS clause until Fastly complained about it. I honestly don&#x27;t know anything about either beyond what&#x27;s publicly visible.<p>But as long as we&#x27;re already mud slinging, I&#x27;d like to take the opportunity to get a little something off my chest. Fastly has been trumpeting for years that Compute@Edge has 35 microsecond cold starts, or whatever, and repeatedly posting blog posts comparing that against 5 milliseconds for Workers, and implying that they are 150x faster. If you look at the details, it turns out that 35 microsecond time is actually how long they take to start a new request, given that the application is already loaded in memory. A hot start, not a cold start. Whereas Workers&#x27; 5ms includes time to load the application from disk (which is the biggest contributor to total time). Our hot start time is also a few microseconds, but that doesn&#x27;t seem like an interesting number?<p>We never called this out, it didn&#x27;t seem worth arguing over. But excuse me if I&#x27;m not impressed by claims of false comparisons...<p>On a serious note, I&#x27;ve been saying for decades that benchmarks are almost always meaningless, because different technologies will have different strengths and weaknesses, so you usually can&#x27;t tell anything about how <i>your</i> use case will perform unless you actually test that use case. So, I would encourage everyone to run your own test and don&#x27;t just go on other people&#x27;s numbers. It&#x27;s great that Fastly has opened up C@E for self-service testing so that people can actually try it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinpombrio</author><text>&gt; I think you&#x27;re misinterpreting the clause. But not being a lawyer, I don&#x27;t really want to get into that discussion.<p>The clause says &quot;Unless otherwise expressly permitted in writing by Cloudflare, you will not and you have no right to: [...] (f) perform or publish any benchmark tests or analyses relating to the Services without Cloudflare’s written consent;&quot;[1]<p>IANAL, but this seems to very unambiguously prohibit benchmarking Cloudflare&#x27;s services unless you have written permission. I know you don&#x27;t want to get into an argument on HN, but could you like... bring it up to someone inside of CloudFlare who would be capable of changing it? You can point to this thread about how this clause is generating negative publicity.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;</a> section 2.2</text></comment> | <story><title>Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests</title><url>https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>I do not believe I suggested doing anything against the ToS. I think you&#x27;re misinterpreting the clause. But not being a lawyer, I don&#x27;t really want to get into that discussion.<p>If I didn&#x27;t state upfront that I was the tech lead of Workers, someone would (rightly) call me out for astroturfing.</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>Sure, but you self-identified as someone responsible for the project and then suggested people go violate the ToS by running their own benchmarks. I think the community here calling out the double standards and asking for an update&#x2F;response is entirely fair. If you didn&#x27;t want the flak then leave off the &quot;I&#x27;m <i>the</i> tech lead on CF workers&quot; intro. Seems to me like the ball is in your court to at least try and make your advice actionable.</text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>To be clear my comment here is not in any way, shape, or form, Cloudflare&#x27;s response. I am here representing only myself.</text></item><item><author>dwwoelfel</author><text>It has been two weeks since Fastly&#x27;s VP of Eng called out your ToS and errors in your benchmark in her original tweet thread [1]. I would hope that Cloudflare would have a better response than this that directly addresses Fastly&#x27;s claims.<p>Are you going to remove the ToS clause or issue a correction on the blog post?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lxt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1462896850055352320" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lxt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1462896850055352320</a></text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>OK...<p>So, I&#x27;m the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers. In complete honestly, I did not even know we ran some sort of comparison benchmark with Compute@Edge until Fastly complained about it, nor did I know about our ToS clause until Fastly complained about it. I honestly don&#x27;t know anything about either beyond what&#x27;s publicly visible.<p>But as long as we&#x27;re already mud slinging, I&#x27;d like to take the opportunity to get a little something off my chest. Fastly has been trumpeting for years that Compute@Edge has 35 microsecond cold starts, or whatever, and repeatedly posting blog posts comparing that against 5 milliseconds for Workers, and implying that they are 150x faster. If you look at the details, it turns out that 35 microsecond time is actually how long they take to start a new request, given that the application is already loaded in memory. A hot start, not a cold start. Whereas Workers&#x27; 5ms includes time to load the application from disk (which is the biggest contributor to total time). Our hot start time is also a few microseconds, but that doesn&#x27;t seem like an interesting number?<p>We never called this out, it didn&#x27;t seem worth arguing over. But excuse me if I&#x27;m not impressed by claims of false comparisons...<p>On a serious note, I&#x27;ve been saying for decades that benchmarks are almost always meaningless, because different technologies will have different strengths and weaknesses, so you usually can&#x27;t tell anything about how <i>your</i> use case will perform unless you actually test that use case. So, I would encourage everyone to run your own test and don&#x27;t just go on other people&#x27;s numbers. It&#x27;s great that Fastly has opened up C@E for self-service testing so that people can actually try it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>First off, just want to say thanks for your posts, I found they give useful context and I really appreciate them.<p>I don&#x27;t want the following to come off as unnecessarily argumentative, but regarding the ToS, I&#x27;m not a lawyer either, but my &quot;ability to read English&quot; interpretation of the section on &quot;<i>perform</i> or publish benchmarks...&quot; certainly sounds like it is prohibiting folks from doing their own side-by-side comparisons. Which is, of course, nonsense, because any engineer worth their salt would do their own analysis, even if they didn&#x27;t publish it.<p>Just sounds to me like the CloudFlare lawyers got a little too aggressive to the point of absurdity, but I still think it&#x27;s fair to call out CloudFlare for this.</text></comment> |
24,957,313 | 24,956,591 | 1 | 3 | 24,955,454 | train | <story><title>Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/davis-wolfgang-hawke-missing-dead-1.5782107</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skizziepop</author><text>What or where is &quot;S.A.&quot; ?</text></item><item><author>clueless123</author><text>Over here in S.A. there is a common saying: Behind every fortune there is a crime. I guess it is pretty international after all.</text></item><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text>I mean, AirBnB got off to a similar start. Before they brought on the infamous spammer as a cofounder it was basically failing to gain any traction, and then he broke the craiglist TOS to scrape their listings.<p>Yes, there is more to the story, but I don&#x27;t see how AirBnB could&#x27;ve ever become what it is today (even if it&#x27;s doing poorly now because of covid and other factors) without some unethical &quot;growth hacking.&quot;<p>In my experience, very few successful tech founders are what I would consider admirable people (obviously anecdotal and subjective). In addition to people like Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley attracts straight up con (wo)men like Adam Neumann and Elizabeth Holmes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;airbnb-co-founder-nathan-blecharczyk-spam-pioneer-says-book.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;airbnb-co-founder-nathan-ble...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-co-founders-freshman-roommate-says-hes-a-spammy-scumbag-2011-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-co-founders-freshman-...</a></text></item><item><author>ojnabieoot</author><text>I think calling an email spammer a technologist, and a technological risk-taker, is a bit much - as is the comparison to McAfee. Maybe in temperament but nowhere close in ability or accomplishment. Hawke was just a con artist with some computer skills.</text></item><item><author>daenz</author><text>What a colorful life: a jewish chess prodigy who becomes a notorious neo-nazi and email spammer, ruffles a lot of feathers as a con man, turns into a nomad and travels under the radar around North America, finally shot to death and found in a burning SUV.<p>There seems to be a specific rare phenotype for these tech high-risk takers (thinking of John McAfee also).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanniabu</author><text>I love how there&#x27;s currently 5 comments and they each have a different answer for what it stands for. Let that be a lesson on explicit vs implicit</text></comment> | <story><title>Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/davis-wolfgang-hawke-missing-dead-1.5782107</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skizziepop</author><text>What or where is &quot;S.A.&quot; ?</text></item><item><author>clueless123</author><text>Over here in S.A. there is a common saying: Behind every fortune there is a crime. I guess it is pretty international after all.</text></item><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text>I mean, AirBnB got off to a similar start. Before they brought on the infamous spammer as a cofounder it was basically failing to gain any traction, and then he broke the craiglist TOS to scrape their listings.<p>Yes, there is more to the story, but I don&#x27;t see how AirBnB could&#x27;ve ever become what it is today (even if it&#x27;s doing poorly now because of covid and other factors) without some unethical &quot;growth hacking.&quot;<p>In my experience, very few successful tech founders are what I would consider admirable people (obviously anecdotal and subjective). In addition to people like Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley attracts straight up con (wo)men like Adam Neumann and Elizabeth Holmes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;airbnb-co-founder-nathan-blecharczyk-spam-pioneer-says-book.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;airbnb-co-founder-nathan-ble...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-co-founders-freshman-roommate-says-hes-a-spammy-scumbag-2011-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-co-founders-freshman-...</a></text></item><item><author>ojnabieoot</author><text>I think calling an email spammer a technologist, and a technological risk-taker, is a bit much - as is the comparison to McAfee. Maybe in temperament but nowhere close in ability or accomplishment. Hawke was just a con artist with some computer skills.</text></item><item><author>daenz</author><text>What a colorful life: a jewish chess prodigy who becomes a notorious neo-nazi and email spammer, ruffles a lot of feathers as a con man, turns into a nomad and travels under the radar around North America, finally shot to death and found in a burning SUV.<p>There seems to be a specific rare phenotype for these tech high-risk takers (thinking of John McAfee also).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tarq0n</author><text>South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent.</text></comment> |
9,879,465 | 9,879,625 | 1 | 2 | 9,878,597 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API</title><url>http://www.density.io/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeshaman</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;After adding Density, we saw as much as a 950% increase in site traffic to supported locations. Our users love it.&quot; - Darren Buckner, Workfrom CEO<p>When I use google maps, it shows me how busy various roads are and it also chooses the fastest route based on how fluid the traffic is.
Seems like google maps is just observing the world and making decisions based on those observations.<p>Now I was wondering, what if all the drivers used google maps at the same time ?<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it mean that google maps is influencing and even <i>creating</i> the traffic patterns ?<p>Same here - just measuring the &#x27;density&#x27; has the effect of actually influencing it which is an interesting outcome and resembles quantum mechanics voodoo stuff :).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdeuchler</author><text>I live in Boulder and this happens all the time during ski season. When traveling towards I-70 there&#x27;s a longer, more circuitous route which breaks off of Highway 6 and goes through Idaho Springs. This path is longer, but cuts off the beginning of the initial drive into the Front Range... it&#x27;s also just a two lane mountain road.<p>Sometimes google maps will detect heavy traffic on I-70 and start re-routing drivers the other way... unfortunately this very quickly creates a bottleneck that Google Maps can&#x27;t detect in time (traffic goes from 0mph to 60mph to 0mph in the mountains) so it&#x27;ll continue to funnel people down that &quot;shortcut&quot; until the traffic essentially equalizes with the I-70 traffic.<p>There&#x27;s an even worse side effect, as those who went through Idaho Springs eventually have to get back onto I-70 to get to the ski resorts, so now that on ramp (which is a metered on ramp) backs up, further hurting both I-70 and the &quot;shortcut&quot; traffic. It&#x27;s a real terrible feedback loop that essentially is caused by Google Maps not being able to adequately predict how much traffic the Idaho Springs route can handle, which seems like a hard problem to solve (especially generally).<p>Edit: Thought about this more and realized predicting ski traffic is more or less a proxy for predicting the weather, so I highly doubt this is a fixable problem (at least in this specific case)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API</title><url>http://www.density.io/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeshaman</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;After adding Density, we saw as much as a 950% increase in site traffic to supported locations. Our users love it.&quot; - Darren Buckner, Workfrom CEO<p>When I use google maps, it shows me how busy various roads are and it also chooses the fastest route based on how fluid the traffic is.
Seems like google maps is just observing the world and making decisions based on those observations.<p>Now I was wondering, what if all the drivers used google maps at the same time ?<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it mean that google maps is influencing and even <i>creating</i> the traffic patterns ?<p>Same here - just measuring the &#x27;density&#x27; has the effect of actually influencing it which is an interesting outcome and resembles quantum mechanics voodoo stuff :).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmorris</author><text>Since in NYC taxis are a substantial portion of road traffic, I once had the idea that NYC should have a special navigation platform (maybe based on Google Maps?) that the taxis are mandated (or, more likely, highly encouraged) to follow, which would essentially load balance the traffic.<p>The city could include data about road closures, police &amp; fire incidents, etc.<p>This might even be used to reduce traffic along bus routes, thereby increasing efficiency for them as well.<p>If someone works in the T&amp;LC and wants to implement this feel free. ;)<p>EDIT: Note this works particularly well in Manhattan where the grid system means there are generally many routes of equal length between any two points.</text></comment> |
3,793,981 | 3,792,553 | 1 | 2 | 3,792,366 | train | <story><title>In praise of... text files and protocols</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/in-praise-of-text-files-and-protocols.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strags</author><text>So... for the one occasion out of a million where somebody needs to "debug" a piece of data, it's necessary to suffer the bloat of a text format for every other piece of data we transmit?<p>How about we just standardize on a binary data representation (eg. MessagePack), and use common tools to export/import to/from a human-readable format? Best of both worlds.<p>And, as an aside - why are we using XML? It's ok as a markup language, I guess, but as a container for data? We could hardly have picked a worse format:<p>It's <i>crazy</i> verbose - even when compared to other text formats (eg. JSON). Compare:<p><pre><code> values: [1,2,3]
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with:<p><pre><code> &#60;values&#62;
&#60;value&#62;1&#60;/value&#62;
&#60;value&#62;2&#60;/value&#62;
&#60;value&#62;3&#60;/value&#62;
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Its verbosity makes it hard to read, and hard to edit.<p>It has a poor mapping to the structures we actually use while programming - it has no built-in notion of arrays. It has superfluous node "attributes" that don't map well to common run-time constructs.</text></comment> | <story><title>In praise of... text files and protocols</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/in-praise-of-text-files-and-protocols.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwexler</author><text>This reminds me of the angst that came when Windows shifted from ".ini" files with clear name=value lines to the "registry", which paid many the bills of consultants, utility programmers, and "fixit-guys" via the fun that is Regedit.<p>+1 for more simple text files... and hey, devs: if you don't need a nested object format, perhaps even leave out the JSON or XML and just make a simple file...</text></comment> |
6,864,485 | 6,863,279 | 1 | 3 | 6,861,404 | train | <story><title>The Internet mystery that has the world baffled</title><url>http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fchollet</author><text>Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless.<p>&gt; &quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;<p><i>Excuse</i> me?<p>&gt; &quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&quot;<p>Sure... the &quot;surface&quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;<p><pre><code> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
int main() {
printf(&quot;%d\n&quot;,2147483629*2147483647);
}
$ gcc test.c -o test 2&gt; &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null
$ .&#x2F;test
19</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet mystery that has the world baffled</title><url>http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fchollet</author><text>Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless.<p>&gt; &quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;<p><i>Excuse</i> me?<p>&gt; &quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&quot;<p>Sure... the &quot;surface&quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarry</author><text>&gt; &gt; &quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&quot;<p>&gt; Sure... the &quot;surface&quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.<p>They seem to have confused some concepts. But the deep web isn&#x27;t something mythical made up by 4chan trolls or science fiction writers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deep_Web</a></text></comment> |
24,968,707 | 24,964,115 | 1 | 2 | 24,950,417 | train | <story><title>The cheap pen that changed writing forever</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201028-history-of-the-ballpoint-pen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>godelmachine</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>pentel energel 0.7mm.</i><p>Thanks for mentioning this<p>I am currently on the lookout for new pen to make my standard usage pen.<p>My prime requirement is that it should be 1.0mm, or at a minimal 0.7mm, since I love the thickness. Secondary requirement is that it should be smooth.<p>I bought Baoke gel from Amazon and while I loved it a lot, was greatly disappointed to find it was of Chinese make.<p>Am now searching for something that’s of non-Chinese origin. So far, I have zeroed in on Uni-ball impact 1.0mm gel pen, and am shortlisting their 0.7mm gel pens as well. I would also give uni-ball 1.0mm and 0.7mm ballpoint pens a try as well in case I feel gel pens get used up faster, since always carrying a backup refill can be an inconvenience.Also, TCO with gel pens is always more than ballpoint pens.<p>Does anyone have any suggestions in mind?<p>Please proffer</text></item><item><author>m463</author><text>My favorite pen is the pentel energel 0.7mm.<p>It will write smooth dark lines just the right thicknes without blobbing or cutting out, and is the most effortless pen to write with.<p>But yes, it does write at a higher angle than a fountain pen. I had a fountain pen years and years ago, and it was something you had to want to use. I can&#x27;t help but think of it like vinyl records, straight razors and film cameras.</text></item><item><author>kaonwarb</author><text>One side effect not discussed here: how the shift to ballpoint pens increased hand strain [0]. Writing with a fountain pen is relatively effortless - not to deny it has several other drawbacks. I imagine this is part of why, as an elementary school student in France, I was required to write with only fountain pens.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting&#x2F;402205&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;ballp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debunn</author><text>I really like the Pilot G2 pens - they use a nice flowing ink and are available in larger 1.0mm and 0.7mm sizes. They are also pretty easy to find (Amazon has them, I&#x27;m sure other stores would as well), so you shouldn&#x27;t have troubles picking a pack up!</text></comment> | <story><title>The cheap pen that changed writing forever</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201028-history-of-the-ballpoint-pen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>godelmachine</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>pentel energel 0.7mm.</i><p>Thanks for mentioning this<p>I am currently on the lookout for new pen to make my standard usage pen.<p>My prime requirement is that it should be 1.0mm, or at a minimal 0.7mm, since I love the thickness. Secondary requirement is that it should be smooth.<p>I bought Baoke gel from Amazon and while I loved it a lot, was greatly disappointed to find it was of Chinese make.<p>Am now searching for something that’s of non-Chinese origin. So far, I have zeroed in on Uni-ball impact 1.0mm gel pen, and am shortlisting their 0.7mm gel pens as well. I would also give uni-ball 1.0mm and 0.7mm ballpoint pens a try as well in case I feel gel pens get used up faster, since always carrying a backup refill can be an inconvenience.Also, TCO with gel pens is always more than ballpoint pens.<p>Does anyone have any suggestions in mind?<p>Please proffer</text></item><item><author>m463</author><text>My favorite pen is the pentel energel 0.7mm.<p>It will write smooth dark lines just the right thicknes without blobbing or cutting out, and is the most effortless pen to write with.<p>But yes, it does write at a higher angle than a fountain pen. I had a fountain pen years and years ago, and it was something you had to want to use. I can&#x27;t help but think of it like vinyl records, straight razors and film cameras.</text></item><item><author>kaonwarb</author><text>One side effect not discussed here: how the shift to ballpoint pens increased hand strain [0]. Writing with a fountain pen is relatively effortless - not to deny it has several other drawbacks. I imagine this is part of why, as an elementary school student in France, I was required to write with only fountain pens.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting&#x2F;402205&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;ballp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My go to pen for years has been the Sarasa Zebra 1.0. I liked it so much and was frustrated when office supply stores didn&#x27;t carry it that I bought a carton from a distributor (288 pens!) I doubt I&#x27;ll run out, but they do dry out eventually.</text></comment> |
7,064,008 | 7,063,879 | 1 | 2 | 7,063,311 | train | <story><title>US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/01/us-physically-hacks-100000-foreign-computers-20141154313871671.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>&gt; monitor units of the Chinese and Russian armies<p>Isn&#x27;t this what they&#x27;re supposed to be doing? I don&#x27;t really have a problem with intelligence gathering against non-allied nation state actors.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryMVK1PwuQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cryMVK1PwuQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihsw</author><text>It&#x27;s not about spying anymore, it&#x27;s about actively working to diminish the security of the everybody to make their job easier.<p>* Would you accept that the US Government pays tech companies to install secret backdoors in operating systems, hardware, and apps? Windows, Android, iOS are all insecure by default -- and nothing is stopping foreign governments and private agents from taking advantage of these backdoors other than simple secrecy.<p>* Would you accept that the US Government infiltrates tech companies to install secret backdoors? Don&#x27;t users (and the tech companies themselves) deserve to know that their hardware&#x2F;software is being sabotaged? Nothing is stopping foreign governments and private agents from taking advantage of these backdoors other than simple secrecy.<p>* Would you accept that the US Government infiltrates security standards organizations to install secret backdoors? These security standards are implemented and accepted as high-quality and reasonably free of defects, and they&#x27;re utilized for all forms of communication on the planet -- but they&#x27;re rendered insecure for the convenience of the US Government. Nothing is stopping foreign governments and private agents from taking advantage of these insecurities other than simple secrecy.<p>The US Government is destroying the padlocks on everybody&#x27;s doors, paying padlock companies to manufacture shitty locks, and infiltrating padlock companies to make sure only shitty locks get manufactured. This isn&#x27;t just spying, it&#x27;s malicious.<p>It&#x27;s not purely &#x27;gov on gov&#x27; anymore -- spying on your adversaries&#x27; population gives great insight into the internal political structure of their government. Economic espionage is the norm now, and the US Government is using every advantage it can get now (regardless of the legality).</text></comment> | <story><title>US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/01/us-physically-hacks-100000-foreign-computers-20141154313871671.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>&gt; monitor units of the Chinese and Russian armies<p>Isn&#x27;t this what they&#x27;re supposed to be doing? I don&#x27;t really have a problem with intelligence gathering against non-allied nation state actors.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryMVK1PwuQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cryMVK1PwuQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvarangot</author><text> &gt; Isn&#x27;t this what they&#x27;re supposed to be doing? I don&#x27;t really have a problem with intelligence gathering against non-allied nation state actors.<p>Shouldn&#x27;t you have a problem with them getting caught then?<p>I don&#x27;t understand this defense of the NSA, no, its not what they are supposed to be doing. At least not anymore.<p>If you are in favor of the US bullying and spying everyone they don&#x27;t consider an ally then you should be outraged they can&#x27;t do it efectively. They got outed by a lone contractor and your &quot;potential enemies&quot;, or however you get to call every single other country in the world to justify the spying, now have most of the technical details they need to thwart the NSA&#x27;s efforts and hence make it spend lots of your taxpayer dollars in coming up with other forms of spying.</text></comment> |
18,059,002 | 18,059,169 | 1 | 2 | 18,058,031 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA and compression</title><url>https://github.com/brannondorsey/chattervox</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ysleepy</author><text>Maybe messages should include a coarse timestamp to prevent replay of old messages by some adversary.<p>Someone could resend a month old &quot;yes&quot; with your valid signature to a question someone asks now.<p>Also it might be beneficial to include sequence numbers or message IDs and for example echo the last 4 ids in following messages so recipients can detect holes. - The chat could insert some placeholder to notify recipients of missing previous messages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA and compression</title><url>https://github.com/brannondorsey/chattervox</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Does this do any sort of FEC? One of the things that makes stuff like this tricky(and APRS in general) is that one flipped bit throws off the whole decode.<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen out there would be a 40% improvement[1] in just base APRS if there was some form of basic FEC built into the protocol. Sadly most of &quot;state of the art&quot; is stuck back in the 80s.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eludium.stensat.org&#x2F;mcguire&#x2F;projects&#x2F;FX-25&#x2F;FX-25_performance.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eludium.stensat.org&#x2F;mcguire&#x2F;projects&#x2F;FX-25&#x2F;FX-25_perf...</a></text></comment> |
21,245,731 | 21,245,176 | 1 | 2 | 21,242,857 | train | <story><title>Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taneem</author><text>During 1999-2000, I helped hundreds of people learn how to use Flash. I was, looking back now, probably one of the top experts on Flash 4 at the time in the world. The twist - I was a 15 year old living in a tiny African country called Lesotho.<p>Lesotho is pretty isolated from the world. Nobody even knows it exists. Living there, Silicon Valley might as well be on Mars.<p>However, we used to get issues of Wired Magazine from South Africa, and these came with shareware CDs. These CDs included 30-day trial editions of Macromedia Flash.<p>Flash was amazing at the time. Being able to create interactive animations blew my mind. I learned Flash 4 completely inside and out. I knew every single feature, every single quirk.<p>Of course living in Lesotho, there was nothing I could really do with all this. Most people around me didn&#x27;t even know how to use computers. Flash was several layers of abstraction away from that.<p>So I used to spend all my time on Yahoo Chat&#x27;s Web Design chat rooms. Mainly hanging out with nerds in the US. We used to have countless people drop by in the rooms every day asking questions about Flash. Mainly people working for web design agencies in the US. I was the resident Flash expert. Flash questions always were referred to me.<p>In the 2000s Flash rightly got a lot of flak. I&#x27;m not sad it&#x27;s gone. But it was really something special, especially in the late 90s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krtkush</author><text>Flash is the reason why I&#x27;m a programmer today. It was Flash which kindled my interest in computers and made sure I spent hours playing around with it and then other aspects of computers.<p>That era of discovery and expression was something special.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taneem</author><text>During 1999-2000, I helped hundreds of people learn how to use Flash. I was, looking back now, probably one of the top experts on Flash 4 at the time in the world. The twist - I was a 15 year old living in a tiny African country called Lesotho.<p>Lesotho is pretty isolated from the world. Nobody even knows it exists. Living there, Silicon Valley might as well be on Mars.<p>However, we used to get issues of Wired Magazine from South Africa, and these came with shareware CDs. These CDs included 30-day trial editions of Macromedia Flash.<p>Flash was amazing at the time. Being able to create interactive animations blew my mind. I learned Flash 4 completely inside and out. I knew every single feature, every single quirk.<p>Of course living in Lesotho, there was nothing I could really do with all this. Most people around me didn&#x27;t even know how to use computers. Flash was several layers of abstraction away from that.<p>So I used to spend all my time on Yahoo Chat&#x27;s Web Design chat rooms. Mainly hanging out with nerds in the US. We used to have countless people drop by in the rooms every day asking questions about Flash. Mainly people working for web design agencies in the US. I was the resident Flash expert. Flash questions always were referred to me.<p>In the 2000s Flash rightly got a lot of flak. I&#x27;m not sad it&#x27;s gone. But it was really something special, especially in the late 90s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>on_and_off</author><text>It was so special.<p>It was just the right mix of relative simplicity and power.<p>No wonder that all the creatives flocked to flash.</text></comment> |
11,521,401 | 11,519,711 | 1 | 3 | 11,518,795 | train | <story><title>Instagram Is Ruining Vacation</title><url>https://backchannel.com/instagram-is-ruining-vacation-701086a67440#.axm8wkawc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>&gt; It would be in most travellers top ten things to do before you die list.<p>Something that has been bothering me lately. I have no memory of 99% of my life. No I don&#x27;t have medical condition, I&#x27;ve spoken to lots of people about this, my friends who I&#x27;ve spoken to have forgotten their babies first steps, their baby&#x27;s first words, first date with their spouse ect which most people would rate as top moments of their lives.<p>I am not even sure that the stuff I do remember form my life is actually accurate or if I&#x27;ve stored them in an edited&#x2F;modified form that would please me. I am not even sure if &#x27;me according to me&#x27; is a honest representation or if its just bunch of inaccuracies that I&#x27;ve woven into somewhat consistent story about myself.<p>People used to view material goods as good life now it all about &#x27;experiences&#x27; . I just don&#x27;t understand that constant demand by both society and internally to have experiences at all costs. We think that without experiences our minds will become dull and uninteresting, experiences would wake us up from our dull lives.</text></item><item><author>kristianc</author><text>I went to see sunrise (and spend the day at) Angkor Wat in December, and have a rather different perspective to the OP.<p>Sure - there were lots of people crowded around a similar spot at sunrise. It&#x27;s Angkor Wat, and seeing sunrise there is the kind of thing that most people in attendance are going to do once in their lives. It would be in most travellers top ten things to do before you die list. People are going to want to take photographs.<p>Did the presence of other people there massively ruin the day for me? No. When sunrise is over, you have at least six hours to wander round the temples completely uninterrupted at your leisure.<p>If you so choose, you can come back in the afternoon when there are far fewer people around. Do I get an awesome amount of pleasure from looking back at my photos of Angkor and sharing them with friends and family? Yes. Do most of my photos even have me in them at all? No.<p>It&#x27;s really impossible to hold the details of an experience like wandering round Angkor in your head for years to come. I&#x27;m not going to remember the detail on a specific bas-relief, or the view I got from the top of a specific temple in years to come. Having photographs of these things really helps in that regard and enables me to &#x27;revisit&#x27; any time I want.<p>This is yet another judgy, post-intellectualizing Medium piece whose purpose isn&#x27;t communicating any particular point but garnering clicks and attention for the author. You really think Instagram ruined your trip to Angkor?<p>Did you really take the decision - faced with an absolutely awe inspiring monument at sunrise - that the best use of your time and resources was to take a judgmental photo of the people around you? Get over yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>&gt; I just don&#x27;t understand that constant demand by both society and internally to have experiences at all costs. We think that without experiences our minds will become dull and uninteresting, experiences would wake us up from our dull lives.<p>I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re expecting to wake up.<p>I think many of us feel totally powerless to live the lives we want to live: to get the job we want, to buy our parents a house, to be seen by our peers the way we&#x27;d like to be seen. We know we&#x27;re up against a wall and that to some degree we&#x27;re settling for uninteresting things.<p>But then someone says &quot;the Sistine Chapel has the most beautiful frescos in the world&quot; and what we hear is &quot;if you can just get your butt here, you can experience a taste of the best stuff there is&quot;. It&#x27;s a chance to stop thinking about what we can&#x27;t have and just think about what we are having and how great it is.<p>In some sense, actually experiencing the place isn&#x27;t really important. In fact, it&#x27;s pretty dangerous. If you paid attention you might realize that you actually don&#x27;t know anything about antiquities, and you don&#x27;t actually care about Michelangelo. Looking deeply at the attraction can only cheapen it.<p>But if you just stand there, in the spot experts say to stand, and you pay your money, and the staff do the thing they do when they get the money, then for a few minutes you can really believe that you have it good.<p>It&#x27;s self-actualization as a service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instagram Is Ruining Vacation</title><url>https://backchannel.com/instagram-is-ruining-vacation-701086a67440#.axm8wkawc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>&gt; It would be in most travellers top ten things to do before you die list.<p>Something that has been bothering me lately. I have no memory of 99% of my life. No I don&#x27;t have medical condition, I&#x27;ve spoken to lots of people about this, my friends who I&#x27;ve spoken to have forgotten their babies first steps, their baby&#x27;s first words, first date with their spouse ect which most people would rate as top moments of their lives.<p>I am not even sure that the stuff I do remember form my life is actually accurate or if I&#x27;ve stored them in an edited&#x2F;modified form that would please me. I am not even sure if &#x27;me according to me&#x27; is a honest representation or if its just bunch of inaccuracies that I&#x27;ve woven into somewhat consistent story about myself.<p>People used to view material goods as good life now it all about &#x27;experiences&#x27; . I just don&#x27;t understand that constant demand by both society and internally to have experiences at all costs. We think that without experiences our minds will become dull and uninteresting, experiences would wake us up from our dull lives.</text></item><item><author>kristianc</author><text>I went to see sunrise (and spend the day at) Angkor Wat in December, and have a rather different perspective to the OP.<p>Sure - there were lots of people crowded around a similar spot at sunrise. It&#x27;s Angkor Wat, and seeing sunrise there is the kind of thing that most people in attendance are going to do once in their lives. It would be in most travellers top ten things to do before you die list. People are going to want to take photographs.<p>Did the presence of other people there massively ruin the day for me? No. When sunrise is over, you have at least six hours to wander round the temples completely uninterrupted at your leisure.<p>If you so choose, you can come back in the afternoon when there are far fewer people around. Do I get an awesome amount of pleasure from looking back at my photos of Angkor and sharing them with friends and family? Yes. Do most of my photos even have me in them at all? No.<p>It&#x27;s really impossible to hold the details of an experience like wandering round Angkor in your head for years to come. I&#x27;m not going to remember the detail on a specific bas-relief, or the view I got from the top of a specific temple in years to come. Having photographs of these things really helps in that regard and enables me to &#x27;revisit&#x27; any time I want.<p>This is yet another judgy, post-intellectualizing Medium piece whose purpose isn&#x27;t communicating any particular point but garnering clicks and attention for the author. You really think Instagram ruined your trip to Angkor?<p>Did you really take the decision - faced with an absolutely awe inspiring monument at sunrise - that the best use of your time and resources was to take a judgmental photo of the people around you? Get over yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wehadfun</author><text>Same boat 99% of it is a blur at best. I think what makes experiences memorable is not only the picture but the people you travel with. Assuming they remain in your life years after the &quot;experience&quot; you can continue to reference and talk about that time you went to ... and did ... These people with or without the picture will do a much better job of making an experience live on.</text></comment> |
22,846,473 | 22,845,850 | 1 | 3 | 22,844,118 | train | <story><title>Guédelon Castle</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pianoben</author><text>This reminds me of a road trip I took with a girlfriend in 2010 or so. We drove south out of St. Louis, MO, going nowhere in particular, and ended up near the Arkansas border. I could have sworn I was dreaming, but nearby there was a bona-fide 13th-century French castle under construction, using period-appropriate tools and techniques, in the middle of the Ozarks!<p>It was absolutely surreal. There was a working farm to grow food for the laborers, stone was sourced from a nearby quarry, there was a smithy on-site, and even some tools were original to the period and were imported from France.<p>Just looked it up - I guess it closed down. Too bad, but maybe unsurprising: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onlyinyourstate.com&#x2F;arkansas&#x2F;ar-ozark-medieval-fortress-remnants&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onlyinyourstate.com&#x2F;arkansas&#x2F;ar-ozark-medieval-f...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Guédelon Castle</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loufe</author><text>Indeed! I just went and volunteered last year (first trip to Europe)! You can do a 7 day rotating internship with them (provided you have a good base in french). They really let you do almost everything, I worked in masonry, carpentry, tile making, grout making, etc. They are a great group and the project is really cool, I made a bunch of friends during my time there too. I strongly recommend the experience.</text></comment> |
25,293,472 | 25,293,354 | 1 | 3 | 25,288,538 | train | <story><title>M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/m1_macs_truth_and_truthiness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can&#x27;t just pretend that having a hot and&#x2F;or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it&#x27;ll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.<p>Be careful what you wish for. X86 is the most open architecture right now. ARM, on the other hand, has locked bootloaders, messy device trees and so on. You can see that virtually every Linux distro running on an ARM SOC needs some specific tweaks.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I&#x27;ve never owned a Mac and don&#x27;t intend to own one but I&#x27;m very happy with this M1 move, mainly for the reasons highlighted in the introduction to the article:<p>&gt;M1 Macs embarrass all other PCs — all Intel-based Macs, including automobile-priced Mac Pros, and every single machine running Windows or Linux. Those machines are just standing around in their underwear now because the M1 stole all their pants.<p>I think it&#x27;s a bit unfair to lump Linux in there since it&#x27;s been running on ARM and other embedded, low-power devices basically forever, but it is true that few of us run our Linux desktop on an ARM board.<p>But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can&#x27;t just pretend that having a hot and&#x2F;or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it&#x27;ll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.<p>I want to believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogre_codes</author><text>&gt; X86 is the most open architecture right now.<p>x86 is not &quot;Open&quot; in any fashion. You can&#x27;t license x86 even for a fee, let alone free.<p>While ARM isn&#x27;t open either, it is by comparison far more available to license at reasonable cost.<p>&gt; ARM, on the other hand, has locked bootloaders<p>It also has open&#x2F; unlocked boot loaders. One of the advantages of licensable technology like this is you can have a lot of different architectures with the same underlying core. With x86, you get whatever the Intel&#x2F; AMD duopoly decide to ship you.</text></comment> | <story><title>M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/m1_macs_truth_and_truthiness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can&#x27;t just pretend that having a hot and&#x2F;or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it&#x27;ll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.<p>Be careful what you wish for. X86 is the most open architecture right now. ARM, on the other hand, has locked bootloaders, messy device trees and so on. You can see that virtually every Linux distro running on an ARM SOC needs some specific tweaks.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I&#x27;ve never owned a Mac and don&#x27;t intend to own one but I&#x27;m very happy with this M1 move, mainly for the reasons highlighted in the introduction to the article:<p>&gt;M1 Macs embarrass all other PCs — all Intel-based Macs, including automobile-priced Mac Pros, and every single machine running Windows or Linux. Those machines are just standing around in their underwear now because the M1 stole all their pants.<p>I think it&#x27;s a bit unfair to lump Linux in there since it&#x27;s been running on ARM and other embedded, low-power devices basically forever, but it is true that few of us run our Linux desktop on an ARM board.<p>But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can&#x27;t just pretend that having a hot and&#x2F;or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it&#x27;ll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.<p>I want to believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenney</author><text>&gt; Be careful what you wish for. X86 is the most open architecture right now<p>You might want to take a look at PowerPC&#x2F;OpenPOWER.<p>ARM not being very open is mostly because there&#x27;s been limited development interest in it, aside from specialised devices, and those companies have no real need or interest to have open things. Doesn&#x27;t mean ARM itself can&#x27;t evolve past it.</text></comment> |
28,869,119 | 28,868,110 | 1 | 2 | 28,866,805 | train | <story><title>Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website</title><url>https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshenberg</author><text>Quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch article is even more groan-worthy:<p>&quot;In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.”<p>I guess webpages are kinda like encryption for idiots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>websap</author><text>We live in a world where everyone thinks they understand computers and have an expectation of security and privacy, but they don&#x27;t realize how hard it is to build these systems correctly. The best security appears to be invisible to the consumer, but requires a lot of thought by the implementer.<p>This is the same reason why I think most of the general public don&#x27;t understand how much data social media apps can collect on them. I know a lot of average technology users, who allow every single permission whenever an App asks them, because they&#x27;re like obviously its not going to do any harm. Without realizing how every action they take is recorded in a database somewhere, which will get compromised sometime in the future.<p>I&#x27;m not a mobile developer, but it would be interesting if iOS provided a service that allowed data to never leave the phone and provided an API for Apps to get particular types of data and showed warning levels in the App, each time more sensitive data is accessed. The App store needs to be a place where if I download an App from, I need to have the peace of mind that it won&#x27;t cause more harm than good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website</title><url>https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshenberg</author><text>Quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch article is even more groan-worthy:<p>&quot;In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.”<p>I guess webpages are kinda like encryption for idiots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idworks1</author><text>&gt; echo json_encode($search_results);<p>This is how I found out how much I, and all other contractors were being paid. And also how much the contracting company was actually charging the clients. All the data was being returned in a json but the very little was being displayed.<p>Looking at the story, this is more of a posture thing. I&#x27;m sure the Governor is surrounded with people who can tell him that no hacking took place, but why miss an opportunity to show you take the privacy of Missourians to heart.</text></comment> |
35,973,578 | 35,972,232 | 1 | 3 | 35,945,322 | train | <story><title>Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-rog-ally-emulation-performance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamkittelson</author><text>The ROG Ally seems like a really nice piece of hardware. Having said that, I cannot possibly stress enough how bad of a time you will have if it breaks and you have to deal with an RMA &#x2F; ASUS customer support.<p>You&#x27;d probably save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just throwing it in the trash and buying a new one or a Steam Deck if something goes wrong with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rxyz</author><text>Basically, if $600-700 is nothing to you then go ahead and buy one. It&#x27;s new and shiny, faster than a Deck and has a nice screen. Maybe it won&#x27;t break before a new gen arrives<p>If you want something that lasts, Steam Deck is a better pick</text></comment> | <story><title>Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-rog-ally-emulation-performance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamkittelson</author><text>The ROG Ally seems like a really nice piece of hardware. Having said that, I cannot possibly stress enough how bad of a time you will have if it breaks and you have to deal with an RMA &#x2F; ASUS customer support.<p>You&#x27;d probably save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just throwing it in the trash and buying a new one or a Steam Deck if something goes wrong with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xelbair</author><text>It&#x27;s godawful even in EU, and that didn&#x27;t change even one bit over the years.<p>Long wait times, unhelpful people - even sales people!
I wanted to change my order from mid-range model to high range model in their official store, and i got stonewalled and delayed by their sales.<p>Last time, i sent my phone for repair, a 4 year old one. Quoted price for out of warranty repair was higher than the price of their newest gaming flagship phone.<p>Previously i sent my tablet for repairs - a broken screen - it came back with used touchscreen that was faulty, had no safety sticker on it(so i assume they just slapped an used one from other repair), and I had to send it back again.</text></comment> |
37,500,096 | 37,499,908 | 1 | 2 | 37,499,731 | train | <story><title>Unity silently removed clause that let you use TOS from version you shipped with</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjw1007</author><text>Every now and again I see someone on this site saying things along the lines of &quot;it&#x27;s a shame that programmers in general are so unwilling to pay for quality tools&quot;, and I feel myself tempted to agree.<p>Then something like this comes along and it becomes clear why it&#x27;s so important that everything we rely on is, at the least, free from &quot;I changed the deal&quot; events.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity silently removed clause that let you use TOS from version you shipped with</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iliketrains</author><text>The first comment of this FAQ thread is also talking about this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.unity.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750&#x2F;#post-9288985" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.unity.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;unity-plan-pricing-and-packa...</a><p>The FAQ is worth reading on its own (and very hard to believe as a Unity game dev, honestly, WTF).</text></comment> |
36,705,390 | 36,705,293 | 1 | 2 | 36,703,711 | train | <story><title>Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)</title><url>https://github.com/Svxy/The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pkaler</author><text>This is a blast from a previous lifetime! I worked at Relic Entertainment during that time. Both Relic and Radical&#x27;s offices were in Yaletown in Vancouver at that time, IIRC. Radical ended up moving to Main &amp; Terminal.<p>I worked on Company of Heroes and Dawn of War during this era. The code looks very familiar. It&#x27;s the same style of C++. The code looks very similar to Homeworld.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HomeworldSDL&#x2F;HomeworldSDL">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HomeworldSDL&#x2F;HomeworldSDL</a><p>I went to SFU, where Neall Verheyde one of the programmers from Radical lectured one semester. Sadly, it looks like he passed away a few years ago.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dignitymemorial.com&#x2F;obituaries&#x2F;west-vancouver-bc&#x2F;neall-verheyde-8141447" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dignitymemorial.com&#x2F;obituaries&#x2F;west-vancouver-bc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)</title><url>https://github.com/Svxy/The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sen</author><text>For fans of the game, Reubs on YouTube[0] has been remaking the entire game and all its assets using modern engine&#x2F;tools&#x2F;etc.<p>It’ll obviously (but regrettably) never get released to the general public, but it’s fun to watch and see what maybe could’ve been.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@reubs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@reubs</a></text></comment> |
15,262,043 | 15,262,079 | 1 | 2 | 15,261,666 | train | <story><title>Equifax Releases Details on Cybersecurity Incident, Announces Personnel Changes</title><url>https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-15-2017-224018832</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azurezyq</author><text>If a hacker can use just one CVE to break into your system and do a database dump (or equivalent), the system is architecturally wrongly designed and only being protected by a single layer of security. Which means, any one from the inside can access pretty much the info as the hacker, which is horrible.<p>For example, are the items in DB encrypted? Are database backups encrypted? Are different items encrypted using different keys? I don&#x27;t think EFX did it right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text><i>If a hacker can use just one CVE to break into your system and do a database dump (or equivalent), the system is architecturally wrongly designed and only being protected by a single layer of security. Which means, any one from the inside can access pretty much the info as the hacker, which is horrible.</i><p>This is how it works at almost every company. Call it horrible if you want, but everyone stops short of describing <i>in detail</i> the exact architectural replacement. And when someone does, it inevitably has flaws that make it impossible to meet business goals.<p>It&#x27;s too easy to handwave this away as &quot;well, get a better architecture.&quot; Everyone knows that; the hard part is, what architecture? How does your architecture work in practice? Encrypting items won&#x27;t help when the keys need to be stored in the same place to access the data. The attackers will just go after that box instead of the DB.<p>You can guard it more carefully, but the point is that <i>some</i> box <i>somewhere</i> needs access to a substantial amount of the data at any given time. It&#x27;s the nature of a credit bureau.</text></comment> | <story><title>Equifax Releases Details on Cybersecurity Incident, Announces Personnel Changes</title><url>https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-15-2017-224018832</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azurezyq</author><text>If a hacker can use just one CVE to break into your system and do a database dump (or equivalent), the system is architecturally wrongly designed and only being protected by a single layer of security. Which means, any one from the inside can access pretty much the info as the hacker, which is horrible.<p>For example, are the items in DB encrypted? Are database backups encrypted? Are different items encrypted using different keys? I don&#x27;t think EFX did it right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patcheudor</author><text>&quot;the system is architecturally wrongly designed&quot;<p>Like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;40468811&#x2F;heres-why-equifax-yanked-its-apps-from-apple-and-google-last-week" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;40468811&#x2F;heres-why-equifax-yanke...</a></text></comment> |
34,723,515 | 34,722,733 | 1 | 3 | 34,719,137 | train | <story><title>Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools</title><url>https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/podman-vs-docker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnarn</author><text>This page is unreadable without clicking through a cookie popup that takes up the entire screen. Here&#x27;s a tip: nobody wants &quot;targeting cookies&quot;, and if someone belongs to the 0.01% that do, you can let them enable it manually, instead of using semi-dark patterns to have uneducated users accept all cookies without understanding what that choice means.<p>I understand some pages need advertising revenue to survive, and that targeted advertising brings in a lot more revenue, but Linode is not a blog, it&#x27;s a cloud provider valued at almost a billion dollars. They don&#x27;t need to do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>The &quot;annoyances&quot; filters of uBlock Origin remove most of them. It improves the web so much that it affects my browser and OS choices. The web us unbearable without it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools</title><url>https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/podman-vs-docker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnarn</author><text>This page is unreadable without clicking through a cookie popup that takes up the entire screen. Here&#x27;s a tip: nobody wants &quot;targeting cookies&quot;, and if someone belongs to the 0.01% that do, you can let them enable it manually, instead of using semi-dark patterns to have uneducated users accept all cookies without understanding what that choice means.<p>I understand some pages need advertising revenue to survive, and that targeted advertising brings in a lot more revenue, but Linode is not a blog, it&#x27;s a cloud provider valued at almost a billion dollars. They don&#x27;t need to do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptman</author><text>And use plausible&#x2F;fathom&#x2F;goatcounter&#x2F;... instead of something that uses cookies</text></comment> |
21,042,751 | 21,042,781 | 1 | 2 | 21,041,213 | train | <story><title>A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29945/the-time-when-a-burning-b-52-nearly-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe-worse-than-chernobyl</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>W-Stool</author><text>If this topic is an area of interest to you I can&#x27;t recommend Eric Schlosser&#x27;s book enough: &quot;Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety&quot;. It is a whole history of known accidents in the missle and aircraft domains that involved nuclear weapons.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29945/the-time-when-a-burning-b-52-nearly-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe-worse-than-chernobyl</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phillco</author><text>&gt; Worse still – and unmentioned by Batzel – a design flaw in the B28 bomb meant that if exposed to prolonged heat, two wires too close to the casing could short circuit, arm the bomb, trigger an accidental detonation of the HE [high explosives] surrounding the core, and set off a nuclear explosion&quot;<p>P0 - WontFix</text></comment> |
41,498,315 | 41,495,595 | 1 | 3 | 41,491,896 | train | <story><title>iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/apple-debuts-iphone-16-pro-and-iphone-16-pro-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mithr</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that I completely agree. To some degree, sure — most folks probably don&#x27;t notice the year-to-year updates in e.g. computing power.<p>But my 70yo mother, who is pretty far from being technologically savvy, uses continuity every day to copy one-time-use codes from her phone to her computer, even though she&#x27;d have no idea what the term &quot;continuity&quot; means in this context. She notices that it&#x27;s easier to snap better pictures in more conditions than it was a few years back (and that pictures she receives are better looking on average, too). She uses 1Password with FaceID, which I set up for her, because it&#x27;s so easy to just look at your phone to unlock that there&#x27;s very little in the way of enabling and using that, and she doesn&#x27;t need to write down passwords anymore.<p>I think some of the magic of the Apple ecosystem is that you don&#x27;t <i>have</i> to know about these things in order to use them. Someone shows you how to do something (Apple could certainly improve on the organic discoverability of many of these features! Some are impossible to find without looking), and then it often just works. And these things do keep getting closer to that ideal over time, with each generation. When I first started using continuity — long before my mother did — it definitely did not work all the time, and I persisted because I&#x27;m a techie early adopter. Eventually, though, it reached a state where once folks learn about it, they can just use it.<p>I&#x27;m also not sure about the 3-4 year number, at least from personal experience, fwiw. We pass down phones in my family, and it easily takes 5-6 generations for them to reach the end of that chain and be in use for a year or two before they&#x27;re switched out for the next model. Battery has never been the reason someone in that chain switched phones.</text></item><item><author>iteratethis</author><text>I&#x27;m conflicted.<p>It&#x27;s absolutely stunning what smartphones can do these days and Apple makes an excellent product. It feels ungrateful and cynical to keep calling new models &quot;boring&quot;.<p>The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I&#x27;ll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user.<p>She can&#x27;t tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion.<p>You can add a million features to the camera app but she opens it and presses the shutter. Her only awareness of features is when she accidentally enables one and doesn&#x27;t know how to get back.<p>You could set her back 8 iOS versions and she probably wouldn&#x27;t notice. Because she uses none of the hundreds of features released since. Not because she dislikes them, she doesn&#x27;t know they even exist.<p>All the spectacular advances in computing power are lost on her as this makes zero difference for the Facebook cat video group and Pinterest.<p>You might assume my girlfriend is perhaps lowly educated or just not tech savvy. Wrong, she&#x27;s highly educated, even works in IT, although not in an engineering role. It&#x27;s not that she&#x27;s unable to understand the advances, she simply doesn&#x27;t care.<p>It&#x27;s becoming ever harder to justify new models for normies. Pretty much they buy the new one when the battery of their current one runs bad, typically every 3-4 years.<p>I think this is also why Apple put many Pro features into the regular model. Most people don&#x27;t buy the pro and they&#x27;re desperate for selling points in the regular model.<p>If the iPhone would have true user-swappable batteries, their business would collapse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>Nearly all of the things you describe there aside from the camera are software&#x2F;services based and don’t require improved hardware year-on-year at all. This is a problem for a company that makes its money selling expensive hardware.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/apple-debuts-iphone-16-pro-and-iphone-16-pro-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mithr</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that I completely agree. To some degree, sure — most folks probably don&#x27;t notice the year-to-year updates in e.g. computing power.<p>But my 70yo mother, who is pretty far from being technologically savvy, uses continuity every day to copy one-time-use codes from her phone to her computer, even though she&#x27;d have no idea what the term &quot;continuity&quot; means in this context. She notices that it&#x27;s easier to snap better pictures in more conditions than it was a few years back (and that pictures she receives are better looking on average, too). She uses 1Password with FaceID, which I set up for her, because it&#x27;s so easy to just look at your phone to unlock that there&#x27;s very little in the way of enabling and using that, and she doesn&#x27;t need to write down passwords anymore.<p>I think some of the magic of the Apple ecosystem is that you don&#x27;t <i>have</i> to know about these things in order to use them. Someone shows you how to do something (Apple could certainly improve on the organic discoverability of many of these features! Some are impossible to find without looking), and then it often just works. And these things do keep getting closer to that ideal over time, with each generation. When I first started using continuity — long before my mother did — it definitely did not work all the time, and I persisted because I&#x27;m a techie early adopter. Eventually, though, it reached a state where once folks learn about it, they can just use it.<p>I&#x27;m also not sure about the 3-4 year number, at least from personal experience, fwiw. We pass down phones in my family, and it easily takes 5-6 generations for them to reach the end of that chain and be in use for a year or two before they&#x27;re switched out for the next model. Battery has never been the reason someone in that chain switched phones.</text></item><item><author>iteratethis</author><text>I&#x27;m conflicted.<p>It&#x27;s absolutely stunning what smartphones can do these days and Apple makes an excellent product. It feels ungrateful and cynical to keep calling new models &quot;boring&quot;.<p>The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I&#x27;ll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user.<p>She can&#x27;t tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion.<p>You can add a million features to the camera app but she opens it and presses the shutter. Her only awareness of features is when she accidentally enables one and doesn&#x27;t know how to get back.<p>You could set her back 8 iOS versions and she probably wouldn&#x27;t notice. Because she uses none of the hundreds of features released since. Not because she dislikes them, she doesn&#x27;t know they even exist.<p>All the spectacular advances in computing power are lost on her as this makes zero difference for the Facebook cat video group and Pinterest.<p>You might assume my girlfriend is perhaps lowly educated or just not tech savvy. Wrong, she&#x27;s highly educated, even works in IT, although not in an engineering role. It&#x27;s not that she&#x27;s unable to understand the advances, she simply doesn&#x27;t care.<p>It&#x27;s becoming ever harder to justify new models for normies. Pretty much they buy the new one when the battery of their current one runs bad, typically every 3-4 years.<p>I think this is also why Apple put many Pro features into the regular model. Most people don&#x27;t buy the pro and they&#x27;re desperate for selling points in the regular model.<p>If the iPhone would have true user-swappable batteries, their business would collapse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ern</author><text>I pay very little attention to features on phones, especially things like improved cameras, but I finally upgraded my iPhone X to an iPhone 15 (one of my kids needed a phone). I&#x27;ve noticed that I&#x27;ve been able to take some stunning pictures out of planes when flying, as well as low-light photos.<p>I agree that even when they aren&#x27;t explicitly highlighted, they do make a substantial difference, especially when comparing models over a span of a few years.</text></comment> |
27,931,629 | 27,930,669 | 1 | 2 | 27,928,307 | train | <story><title>Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArtWomb</author><text>The one theme many of the prognosticators of the post Cold War boom failed to see was the democratization of tech. &quot;A computer on every desk&quot; has become an internet node in every pocket. Part of the fear wasn&#x27;t just of a high priesthood that controlled knowledge, language and thought itself as everyday work and modern life became more machine-like. But of a New Religion: where Science becomes the last true God.<p>One measure of the progress of a civilization is efficiency with which ideas can be communicated. And the crux of what von Neumann perceives as danger is &quot;runaway&quot; technology. We attempt to solve one problem, like controlling the weather, by introducing remedies according to our current state of the art capabilities. And accidentally introduce cataclysms that cannot be reversed.<p>Now that capability is accelerating, the same fears arise anew. But it&#x27;s a different world today. Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore. Its too pricey. The culture has shifted as well. From ICBMs to private space enterprises. And it&#x27;s that cultural feedback loop, that civilizing progress as ideas are shared instantly about the globe, that very few were able to foresee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acituan</author><text>&gt; failed to see was the democratization of tech. &quot;A computer on every desk&quot; has become an internet node in every pocket.<p>I find it harmful to equate mere proliferation with <i>democratic participation</i>. Sure, you have many terminals, but most of the information processing is still lopsided towards the centralized &quot;server&quot;. When recommendation algorithms shove content down people&#x27;s throats, only <i>consequential participation</i> expected from them is to engage with the ads, and they can&#x27;t talk back to ads. The rest is almost as &quot;democratic&quot; as watching TV.<p>&gt; One measure of the progress of a civilization is efficiency with which ideas can be communicated.<p>And it is a bad measure.<p>A psychotic person&#x27;s mind also communicates tons of ideas back and forth, in fact too &quot;efficiently&quot;. Propaganda posters from an airplane also communicates very efficiently. The idea that mere communication makes progress is what we&#x27;ve been thought by the engagement-maximization culture.<p>Real measure of progress is the extent those ideas converge towards <i>the truth</i>. How they can form a pattern of <i>meaning</i> that increasingly conforms to the <i>reality</i>. Current tech cares about none of those, and no wonder there is a crisis of meaning making and acceleration from departure from reality, just like a psychotic person.<p>&gt; Now that capability is accelerating, the same fears arise anew. But it&#x27;s a different world today. Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore.<p>It is just developed in secret by large scale internet companies now. For most of the tech most of the people have the most screen time with, what content is recommended why, what data is processed how etc are the biggest secrets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArtWomb</author><text>The one theme many of the prognosticators of the post Cold War boom failed to see was the democratization of tech. &quot;A computer on every desk&quot; has become an internet node in every pocket. Part of the fear wasn&#x27;t just of a high priesthood that controlled knowledge, language and thought itself as everyday work and modern life became more machine-like. But of a New Religion: where Science becomes the last true God.<p>One measure of the progress of a civilization is efficiency with which ideas can be communicated. And the crux of what von Neumann perceives as danger is &quot;runaway&quot; technology. We attempt to solve one problem, like controlling the weather, by introducing remedies according to our current state of the art capabilities. And accidentally introduce cataclysms that cannot be reversed.<p>Now that capability is accelerating, the same fears arise anew. But it&#x27;s a different world today. Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore. Its too pricey. The culture has shifted as well. From ICBMs to private space enterprises. And it&#x27;s that cultural feedback loop, that civilizing progress as ideas are shared instantly about the globe, that very few were able to foresee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoffeine</author><text>&gt; Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore.<p>Real technology (advancement of science vs software+marketing) is still very much developed by governments, because they are the only entities willing to spend billions on possible dead ends. Fusion reactors, CERN, nuclear technology, and those are the ones we know about because we&#x27;re allowed to know. The US alone spends about 80-90 billion per year on &quot;Special Access Programs.&quot; [1]<p>&gt; From ICBMs to private space enterprises.<p>&quot;China is building more than 100 new missile silos in its western desert, analysts say&quot; [1]<p>I&#x27;m also trying to be an optimist about the future, but part of that is understanding where we actually are. Technology is still firmly in the control of governments and a handful of corporations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;29092&#x2F;special-access-programs-and-the-pentagons-ecosystem-of-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;29092&#x2F;special-access-p...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;china-nuclear-missile-silos&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;0fa8debc-d9c2-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;china-nucle...</a></text></comment> |
6,936,293 | 6,936,163 | 1 | 2 | 6,935,763 | train | <story><title>I now have Rust code for executing executables</title><url>http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/19/day-45-reading-elf-headers/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>The enthusiasm is infectious. I find it helpful to step back every so often and remember just how staggeringly much it is we take for granted.</text></comment> | <story><title>I now have Rust code for executing executables</title><url>http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/19/day-45-reading-elf-headers/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sitharus</author><text>This whole series has been fascinating. I&#x27;ve never had the inclination to write my own OS, but I love seeing what it entails.</text></comment> |
7,690,195 | 7,689,167 | 1 | 2 | 7,688,191 | train | <story><title>Make Your Own Grid Paper</title><url>http://gridzzly.com/#t</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>interfacesketch</author><text>[Shameless plug] If you want A4 or US letter gridded paper for sketching a mobile, web or tablet UI, I have a bunch of free ones on my site.<p><a href="http://www.interfacesketch.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.interfacesketch.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Make Your Own Grid Paper</title><url>http://gridzzly.com/#t</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mayoff</author><text>My favorite graph paper: <a href="http://whitelines.se/function/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whitelines.se&#x2F;function&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
22,387,489 | 22,387,723 | 1 | 3 | 22,386,960 | train | <story><title>Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/amazon-let-a-fraudster-keep-my-sony-a7r-iv-and-refunded-him-2900/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebaySucks123</author><text>I had the same exact experience the last time I sold on ebay, in 2017. I sold an $800 item. One day before the claim window closed, the buyer filed a claim saying it had never arrived and claiming they emailed me several times and I never responded. I submitted proof of delivery from UPS and pointed out the simple fact that I had received no messages from the buyer through ebay messaging. Ebay gave them a full refund and refused to speak to me about it. When I called them and waited on hold for several hours, they literally just hung up on me. I closed my ebay and paypal accounts and I’ll never use them again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshGlazebrook</author><text>I have a similar story. I sold a brand new iPhone to someone on eBay who claimed it was reported as stolen and was not able to be used. Paypal refunded the buyer, and allowed them to keep the phone. Paypal account went negative, their internal collections started calling every day right away even though it was in dispute.<p>Even after providing proof that the IMEI was not reported as stolen, and them waiting weeks for the buyer to provide any proof (they didn&#x27;t), they still sided with the buyer. I called for weeks, and finally after about two months, somehow the person on the phone was able to just issue a refund. I&#x27;ve not sold anything on Ebay since.<p>On top of that, when I had an issue with buying something through paypal, they used that ^ instance as a negative against me while on the phone. &quot;Well I see you sold a stolen iPhone in the past...&quot; was not something I was expecting to hear.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/amazon-let-a-fraudster-keep-my-sony-a7r-iv-and-refunded-him-2900/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebaySucks123</author><text>I had the same exact experience the last time I sold on ebay, in 2017. I sold an $800 item. One day before the claim window closed, the buyer filed a claim saying it had never arrived and claiming they emailed me several times and I never responded. I submitted proof of delivery from UPS and pointed out the simple fact that I had received no messages from the buyer through ebay messaging. Ebay gave them a full refund and refused to speak to me about it. When I called them and waited on hold for several hours, they literally just hung up on me. I closed my ebay and paypal accounts and I’ll never use them again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdxbigman</author><text>Stories like this are why I&#x27;ve never bought or sold anything on Ebay. They just seem like a genuinely shitty experience and I&#x27;d rather shell out extra cash to buy new or meet someone off craigslist as a bank.</text></comment> |
30,834,104 | 30,833,110 | 1 | 2 | 30,830,772 | train | <story><title>No news is good news</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I have been a very strong adherent of this philosophy for over 30 years.<p>There’s an adage, “there’s nothing as worthless as yesterday’s news”. Which led me to wonder, “was it even worth knowing yesterday?”<p>I realized the solution was a low pass filter.<p>I first switched to a seven-page newspaper (CSM) delivered through the mail. I realised the editors had to figure out whether it would still be interesting by the time it arrived and important enough to take up space in the paper.<p>I soon switched to a weekly newspaper (The Economist) and monthlies. I haven’t looked back. The nice thing about a paper like the economist is remained relatively small (few pages) so had to make the same class of decision as the CSM, rather than expand the paper.<p>I also have an RSS list of trade journals and such that I skim once a week, reading the odd title that looks interesting. Most of the time it’s only a handful of articles.<p>As for the high frequency stuff and stuff outside my bubble: I still talk to people and so I hear about stray stories. I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation. At all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation.<p>Speaking of &quot;weekly&quot; discussions, the Ukraine situation has been brought up in my weekly Church prayers since it started.<p>Generally speaking, if it a current event that the Priests make 2 or 3 &quot;intentions&quot; for (in the Catholic mass, the prayers that occur after the Homily but before the preparations), its an incredible event. In many situations, the words are vague so that it applies to as broadly as possible (ex: there usually is something about wars and disasters), but Ukraine specifically is brought up in those prayers in my experience.<p>Which makes sense, the suffering and pains of that country are the greatest seen in many decades.<p>--------<p>Generally speaking, the intentions are specific to the parish community (pray for X who died last week) and local. Sometimes, a &quot;sister parish&quot; from another side of the world get their intentions emailed to our Church (ex: a hurricane that affects Haiti will be brought up, because our &quot;sister-Parish&quot; is in Haiti, so their &quot;local&quot; issues are brought up in our prayers as well. My current Parish doesn&#x27;t have a sister-parish, but my last one had one in Haiti). For a global event to be brought up in specific terms (more so than just &quot;prayer to end wars&quot;. But a specific &quot;prayer to help the people of Ukraine&quot;) is pretty rare.</text></comment> | <story><title>No news is good news</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I have been a very strong adherent of this philosophy for over 30 years.<p>There’s an adage, “there’s nothing as worthless as yesterday’s news”. Which led me to wonder, “was it even worth knowing yesterday?”<p>I realized the solution was a low pass filter.<p>I first switched to a seven-page newspaper (CSM) delivered through the mail. I realised the editors had to figure out whether it would still be interesting by the time it arrived and important enough to take up space in the paper.<p>I soon switched to a weekly newspaper (The Economist) and monthlies. I haven’t looked back. The nice thing about a paper like the economist is remained relatively small (few pages) so had to make the same class of decision as the CSM, rather than expand the paper.<p>I also have an RSS list of trade journals and such that I skim once a week, reading the odd title that looks interesting. Most of the time it’s only a handful of articles.<p>As for the high frequency stuff and stuff outside my bubble: I still talk to people and so I hear about stray stories. I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation. At all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeefirst</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about this is you picked:<p>1. Extremely high quality publications.
2. In a controlled manner.<p>That&#x27;s not &quot;no news&quot; at all, it&#x27;s a healthy relationship to quality news.</text></comment> |
1,646,428 | 1,645,844 | 1 | 2 | 1,645,745 | train | <story><title>The Tragic Death of Practically Everything</title><url>http://technologizer.com/2010/08/18/the-tragic-death-of-practically-everything/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlavezzo</author><text>I think it's worth noting that most of those stories are random blog sites, which are kind of allowed (expected?) to post stupid, sensationalist stuff fairly regularly. The WIRED article was a cover story on a major technology publication, and went beyond opinion and used a totally misleading graph ( <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.ht...</a> ). The WIRED article is a few levels above those links in terms of stupidity.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Tragic Death of Practically Everything</title><url>http://technologizer.com/2010/08/18/the-tragic-death-of-practically-everything/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dingle_thunk</author><text>Breaking News: Unnecessarily hyperbolic and speculative tech news sites are dead!</text></comment> |
5,584,718 | 5,584,418 | 1 | 2 | 5,583,912 | train | <story><title>Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits</title><url>http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-available.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zvrba</author><text>Having been a long-time user of HP series of calculators (HP48g, HP50g), postfix notation is not foreign to me. So I tried Factor, and gave up on it for several reasons.<p>First, there were obligatory stack effect declarations on each word. Want to refactor your program? Sure, rewrite your words, together with stack effect declarations. That part was extremely annoying when it came to exploratory programming. For the uninitiated: stack effect declarations are akin to function prototypes in C, only lacking type information. IMO, once you have them, and they're obligatory, you get all the drawbacks of postfix languages, and no benefits.<p>Second, the language and standard library rely heavily on stack combinators. Reading the standard library code requires intimate familiarity of what words like bi, bi@ and bi* do (among a whole lot of others).<p>Third, I find Factor's documentation extremely confusing. For example, there are "Vocabulary index" and "Libraries" sections, with little or no overlap between them. But vocabulary is a library (or package, whatever, same thing), so WTF?!<p>Then there are important and powerful features like generic words, but if you click on the "Language reference" link on the docs homepage, you get a menu with no mention of generics, and you have little clue in which section to look for them. (It's under objects.) Then you eventually find out (sorry, I was unable to dig up reference to the docs) that generics support only single dispatch, and only "math" generics (plus, minus, etc.) support double dispatch.<p>In short, the manual is a maze of cross-references with no head or tail.<p>Fourth, I dislike writing control structures in postfix. This is the part that, IMO, RPL on HP's calculators got right. Instead of forcing you to write something like<p><pre><code> 10
"Less than 10"
"Greater than 10"
[ &#60; ] 2dip if ! 2dip is a stack combinator, guess what it does!
</code></pre>
you could write<p><pre><code> IF 10 &#60; THEN "Less than 10" ELSE "Greater than 10" END
</code></pre>
(Postfix conditionals were available for the rare cases where they were the most convenient form.)<p>Last but not least, it supports only cooperative threads.</text></comment> | <story><title>Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits</title><url>http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-available.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>It takes a few hours to get used to, but once you get the hang of it it becomes an amazing language. For most things postfix notation that Factor uses reads better than applicative (prefix) notation other languages uses. It's like jQuery's or linq's method chaining, only better :) and with less syntax. For example here is the solution to problem 22 in Project Euler (<a href="http://projecteuler.net/problem=22" rel="nofollow">http://projecteuler.net/problem=22</a>):<p><pre><code> : names ( -- seq )
"names.txt" ascii file-contents [ quotable? ] filter "," split ;
: score ( str -- n ) [ 64 - ] map sum ;
: solution-22 ( -- n )
names natural-sort [ 1 + swap score * ] map-index sum ;</code></pre></text></comment> |
4,526,959 | 4,526,863 | 1 | 3 | 4,526,609 | train | <story><title>Fast Inverse Square Root</title><url>http://blog.quenta.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>In case anyone is interested in reading other accounts and the HN discussions that accompany them, here are a few previous submissions of other articles:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213056" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213056</a> &#60;- Some comments<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166</a> &#60;- Some comments<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573912" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573912</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896092" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896092</a> &#60;- Some comments<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599635" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599635</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332793" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332793</a> &#60;- Some comments<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115168" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115168</a> &#60;- Some comments<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259199" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259199</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fast Inverse Square Root</title><url>http://blog.quenta.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimminy</author><text>I've always liked the post provided by BetterExplained[0], but this article is more thorough while remaining simple. Would probably still use the BetterExplained post for a first introduction, I think.<p>[0]:<a href="http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fast-inverse-square-root/" rel="nofollow">http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fas...</a></text></comment> |
35,491,990 | 35,490,962 | 1 | 2 | 35,481,487 | train | <story><title>How to Stop Ruminating</title><url>https://www.sudarkoff.blog/p/how-to-stop-ruminating</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msaltz</author><text>In the book Getting Things Done the author explains that your brain is basically a really bad reminder system. So if it thinks there’s something you needs to do, it will basically keep reminding you of that thing at all times until you do it. So for each of these things, there’s what the author calls an “open loop”, and the brain keeps telling you about it until the loop is closed.<p>The way out, the author says, is to have a trusted system for storing information outside your brain. In that trusted system, you can write down what needs to be done for each open loop, and that basically closes the loop for your brain and it will stop reminding you of that thing all the time.<p>I still haven’t gone fully into doing it but my director at work swore by it, and the few times I tried it it was almost like magic. Even if you just pull out a todo app or notebook and for each of the things currently looping in your head, write down <i>only</i> the next step you need to take regarding that open loop (and maybe what the desired outcome is - I can’t remember if that’s in the book or not). For me the first time I tried it it was magical - it turned out there were only 4 or 5 things total looping on my mind at the time and after doing this exercise my mind was basically blank - the reminder system stopped telling me there was something I needed to do for these loops.<p>I think for it to be sustainable you probably have to really make sure you follow up on the things you write down so that your brain actually trusts you’ll do the things you wrote down, but at least for me it worked really well as a short term hack on a few occasions. I really need to finish reading the book!</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Stop Ruminating</title><url>https://www.sudarkoff.blog/p/how-to-stop-ruminating</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sakos</author><text>An important step for me was practicing mindfulness meditation. It&#x27;s literally training the skill of recognizing your thoughts and being able to step back from them to observe. That distance is important for, say, figuring out what your triggers are or deciding how to handle these thoughts.<p>Honestly, everybody should be practicing mindfulness meditation and cognitive-based therapy. It&#x27;s a powerful combination. Also, see a therapist. A decent one is worth their weight in gold. Even though I was practicing these things, it was clear it wasn&#x27;t a perfect fix and adding a third-party perspective was a huge help in learning how to regulate my thoughts and emotions. Some things we simply can&#x27;t solve completely on our own.</text></comment> |
7,590,813 | 7,590,741 | 1 | 2 | 7,590,250 | train | <story><title>SF’s Housing Crisis Explained</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>Very interesting, that Piketty&#x27;s &quot;Capital in the 21st Century&quot; is introduced in this article:<p><i>A lot of other VCs and founders are also digesting Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the 21st Century.” With more than 200 years of data, it chronicles an inexorable rise in inequality that was punctuated in the middle of the 20th century by the Great Depression and World War II followed by 30 years of evenly-spread prosperity. Ultimately, it advocates a globally-coordinated tax on wealth.</i><p>I know that it&#x27;s taboo on HN to get overly political, but I think because of Piketty&#x27;s work we should talk about it (particularly, <i>because</i> Piketty&#x27;s new piece is so groundbreaking [1] and incredibly well-backed with data). What do you guys think of his &quot;global wealth tax&quot; -- tax on capital (including real property), in the context of the new SV riches?<p>[1]: The book is being received as &quot;the most important economiscs text of the decade&quot; by a lot of high-placed economists, etc.: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century#Reception" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Cen...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apsec112</author><text>&quot;&quot;How can you dismiss socialism so casually?&quot;<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve thought a lot about this, actually; it was not a casual remark. I think the fundamental question is not whether the government pays for schools or medicine, but whether you allow people to get rich.<p>In England in the 1970s, the top income tax rate was 98%. That&#x27;s what the Beatles&#x27; song &quot;Tax Man&quot; is referring to when they say &quot;one for you, nineteen for me.&quot;<p>Any country that makes this choice ends up losing net, because new technology tends to be developed by people trying to make their fortunes. It&#x27;s too much work for anyone to do for ordinary wages. Smart people might work on sexy projects like fighter planes and space rockets for ordinary wages, but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs. Life in the Soviet Union would have been even poorer if they hadn&#x27;t had American technologies to copy.<p>Finland is sometimes given as an example of a prosperous socialist country, but apparently the combined top tax rate is 55%, only 5% higher than in California. So if they seem that much more socialist than the US, it is probably simply because they don&#x27;t spend so much on their military.&quot;<p><a href="http://paulgraham.com/resay.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;resay.html</a><p>(I know that in the US anything even vaguely leftist gets called &quot;socialism&quot;, but Thomas Piketty, the author, is a genuine strong supporter of the French Socialist Party, and the focus of the book is explicitly on government action to prevent anyone from getting &#x27;too&#x27; rich. I think it&#x27;s a fair criticism.)<p>EDIT: To those not familiar with British history, things got <i>really</i> bad during the 1970s. Inflation peaked at 27%. The government went bankrupt and had to go &quot;cap-in-hand&quot; to the IMF for a bailout. Garbage piled up in the streets because the sanitation workers were on strike. <i>Bodies</i> piled up because the <i>gravediggers</i> were on strike... (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Winter_of_Discontent</a>). I don&#x27;t want to get into an argument about Thatcher, but everyone at all familiar with the history agrees that the country was in a mess.</text></comment> | <story><title>SF’s Housing Crisis Explained</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>Very interesting, that Piketty&#x27;s &quot;Capital in the 21st Century&quot; is introduced in this article:<p><i>A lot of other VCs and founders are also digesting Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the 21st Century.” With more than 200 years of data, it chronicles an inexorable rise in inequality that was punctuated in the middle of the 20th century by the Great Depression and World War II followed by 30 years of evenly-spread prosperity. Ultimately, it advocates a globally-coordinated tax on wealth.</i><p>I know that it&#x27;s taboo on HN to get overly political, but I think because of Piketty&#x27;s work we should talk about it (particularly, <i>because</i> Piketty&#x27;s new piece is so groundbreaking [1] and incredibly well-backed with data). What do you guys think of his &quot;global wealth tax&quot; -- tax on capital (including real property), in the context of the new SV riches?<p>[1]: The book is being received as &quot;the most important economiscs text of the decade&quot; by a lot of high-placed economists, etc.: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century#Reception" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Cen...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericd</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the idea of a tax on wealth - it seems like it would discourage savings, as you have to use it or lose it. If I save up a nest egg, my tax bill shouldn&#x27;t increase as my nest egg increases, eventually reaching an equilibrium where I have to keep working just to keep my savings constant. Much better would be a much higher top marginal tax rate like the one we had pre-Reagan, and including investment gains in that.</text></comment> |
13,412,475 | 13,410,831 | 1 | 2 | 13,409,082 | train | <story><title>China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-more-come-it-waste-money-china-has-built-worlds-largest</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xbeta</author><text>(Being a Chinese grew up in Canada, and now working&#x2F;living in the Bay)<p>In my opinion, most people in the valley or in North America still refuse to give up their lifestyle. They look for something like self-driving cars, all electric-powered &quot;personal&quot; vehicle to invest. And those still drive on the same road&#x2F;interstates&#x2F;highway infrastructure and don&#x27;t give you the benefits compare with high-speed rails.<p>They don&#x27;t recognize the real priorities - how to transport millions people everyday efficiently, cost-effectively, and most environmentally friendlies.<p>They also don&#x27;t recognize local economy, local businesses thrive with these connected network. It is proven to be the case in China and Japan.<p>High-speed rail network is what people want - to get from point A to point B quickly. It&#x27;s not something even the most efficient self-driving car with the best MPG electric-powered vehicle can scale for millions of people everyday.<p>Instead of investing into some new technologies, they seem like they refuse to take decades of proven technology and just use it in US (high-speed trains were first invented in Japan in the 60s)<p>But as I understand very well in the culture here, the politics, the corruption, and the oil&#x2F;automative conglomerate will never make this happen for the actual good for the people.<p>I would without a doubt to say the US is in its downfall as it didn&#x27;t pick the priorities to fix the root of the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-more-come-it-waste-money-china-has-built-worlds-largest</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nacc</author><text>As someone who grew in China, I just want to point out that besides the engineering, it is a political wonder as well.<p>Before the bullet train network was built, China already has an extensive railway network. The first step is to run the bullet train on traditional railways, with a peak speed of 180km&#x2F;h. People think it&#x27;s great. No objections.<p>But to raise the speed further, a new network has to be built, almost side-by-side to traditional railways. This idea horrored almost everybody: new railways for 10s of thousands kms, new train stations (yes for most of the place it needs a separate station), just to be a bit faster? Of course it got a constant concensual blaze from both the citizens and all the official and unofficial media. This state maintains from the beginning of the project all the way a couple years into it operates (which spans many years).<p>The head of the project, Liu Zhijun had to be in jail of course. Then everything changes, 180 degree. People took the trains and realize it&#x27;s great. What I (and probably many people too) didn&#x27;t know before was with the speed increase, the perception of distance changes. The trains run like buses: between major cities, the train runs across in every several minutes. You can just get a ticket, go to the station, an hour later you are on the subway of another city. Many times when we were holding a meeting, people from other cities actually took less time to arrive than someone driving from suburbs.<p>Then the new railway network gets praise from both national and overseas. The official media shut up about Liu. People start to think Liu as a fanatically great
engineer.<p>I cannot imagine how this project can even get started, and what Liu had to do to get this to work. There must have been a great story, but we may never know.</text></comment> |
17,890,328 | 17,889,592 | 1 | 3 | 17,889,028 | train | <story><title>After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found</title><url>https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/31/after-24-years-doom-iis-final-secret-has-been-found/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shaklee3</author><text>This would be a good time to remind everyone to read the book Masters of Doom. Such a great story of how these games came to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found</title><url>https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/31/after-24-years-doom-iis-final-secret-has-been-found/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derekp7</author><text>This reminds me of a quick in Kings Quest, which let you walk across the water to the island by ducking while slipping down the embankment. Apparently you couldn&#x27;t duck and drown at the same time.</text></comment> |
3,252,094 | 3,251,952 | 1 | 3 | 3,251,877 | train | <story><title>Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?</title><url>http://hnpickup.appspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>Currently "gravity" pulls stories down as a function of time. If time were replaced by a counter that increments with each story upvote across HN, gravity would be normalized for activity and timing would matter less.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?</title><url>http://hnpickup.appspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lpolovets</author><text>Cool idea, although it might turn into a Catch-22: once people know what the best times to submit are, those will no longer be the best times to submit. =)<p>You should label and explain the axes and sliders. I have no idea what the numbers mean, or what the "pickup ratio" is.<p>Also, instead of linking "bad" below the chart, you should make it bold and link the word "submit" instead. I thought clicking on "bad" would take me to an explanation, not the HN submit page.</text></comment> |
25,471,337 | 25,471,690 | 1 | 2 | 25,466,836 | train | <story><title>Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation</title><url>https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pontus</author><text>The receiver does not know that a message has been sent until the first person contacts them classically. It&#x27;s a common mistake to think that quantum teleportation is a new way of sending information. It&#x27;s really a way to use classical communication in order to leverage entanglement to bypass various limitations of quantum mechanics.<p>So, the two people communicating would e.g. start out together and create a pair of entangled systems A and B. The person in possession of system B would then travel far away. The person in possession of system A then decides that they want to teleport a new system C to the person far away. They do this by placing system C next to system A and then performing a measurement on the combined system A+C causing these two states to become entangled. We now have an implicit entanglement between system C and system B that is far away. The person in possession of system A+C now picks up the phone and calls the other person to tell them what the outcome of their measurement on A+C was. The person far away then uses this information to determine a way to manipulate their state B in a certain way (the particular way in which they need to do this depends on the outcome of the measurement of A+C). Once that manipulation is complete, the system they have in their possession (B) is now in the quantum state that C was originally in. The system C, unfortunately has been destroyed in the process.</text></item><item><author>edge17</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m dense, but I still don&#x27;t understand. The cloning explanation made sense to me, but to the original question - how does the recipient know the message is done being sent without the sender picking up the phone and calling the recipient...?<p>i.e. Is there some equivalent of a termination code&#x2F;header sort of thing that the recipient is looking for in the &#x27;bit stream&#x27; or whatever? Or am I not even thinking about this in terms of the right analogy?<p>edit: Thank btw, this comment was fascinating to me.</text></item><item><author>pontus</author><text>Great question! This gets to the heart of why quantum teleportation has any value at all.<p>So, before QM there was already a sense in which you could teleport an object: simply measure its state perfectly and send that information to another location and have them reconstruct that state particle by particle. In principle the new system would be indistinguishable from the original system and you could claim that you&#x27;ve teleported it. Now, with the discovery of quantum mechanics, this process no longer works because there is no way to measure the complete state of a quantum system. For example, you could measure the position of each particle to arbitrary accuracy or you can measure the speed of every particle to arbitrary position, but you can&#x27;t do both (Heisenberg&#x27;s uncertainty principle). So, it would seem like one could not construct a perfect replica of a quantum system in a new location by measuring its state in the original position.<p>The cleverness of quantum teleportation is that you use entanglement to sort of short circuit this limitation. You let entanglement do the heavy lifting to sort of &quot;copy&quot; the state from one location to another and then perform a measurement in the original location to uncover just enough information so that the person in the second location can manipulate its system to reconstruct the original state.<p>It&#x27;s sort of like reconstructing the state without actually knowing what that state is.<p>Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it&#x27;s not like you&#x27;ll end up with two copies of the same thing (which is what would happen in the classical version) so there&#x27;s no discussion necessary around the distinction between teleportation and cloning. Classically you&#x27;d be cloning the system but quantum mechanically you&#x27;d really truly be teleporting it (in fact, there&#x27;s a result in quantum mechanics called &quot;the no cloning theorem&quot; that proves that cloning in QM is impossible).</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what&#x27;s the point?</text></item><item><author>pontus</author><text>You entangle two systems but in order to actually complete the teleportation you need to measure one system and then convey the outcome of that measurement to the other party. This information is needed by the second party in order for them to be able to correctly collapse the state of their system into one that is identical to the original system being teleported. The information that the first party must convey to the receiving party must be sent in a classical way (e.g. a phone call).</text></item><item><author>sabellito</author><text>I&#x27;m confused, as I&#x27;m an enthusiast but definitely no physicist.<p>The article states that quantum information is being teleported via entanglement. However, it was my understanding that one cannot transfer information in such a way as the &quot;information&quot; is only revealed when interacting with the particle.<p>Could someone perhaps clarify what&#x27;s going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidhyde</author><text>Thank you for all your comments, very illuminating! Is the following classical analogy flawed? Say you have two pendulums and you set them in motion together so that they swing in perfect synchrony. Then you move the one (still swinging) pendulum to another location without disturbing it. Would it be reasonable to say that the physical pendulums are the “medium” and evolving information about the exact position and velocity of the pendulums the “system”? Because this is a classical system you can measure the position and velocity of the one pendulum and know that the other pendulum is at the exact same position and velocity. They are “coherent” in a way. However, in a quantum system, the medium (say a photon of light) is so fragile that measuring it removes its coherence to its entangled twin. This decoherence does not destroy the photon but the future information it carries. It now carries new information unrelated to the originally entangled photon. Kind of like having to stop a pendulum to figure out it’s position and velocity. You haven’t destroyed the pendulum but you have destroyed the potential for it to give you information about the other pendulum in the future. Following on from this analogy, if you crashed pendulum c into your one pendulum and destructively measured the resulting position and velocity you could send this information to the second pendulum to get that pendulum to set another pendulum in motion that would have an identical future to pendulum c before its system was destroyed. Thus, no information is really flowing between the two entangled photons because they are just “vibrating” identically until one is disturbed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation</title><url>https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pontus</author><text>The receiver does not know that a message has been sent until the first person contacts them classically. It&#x27;s a common mistake to think that quantum teleportation is a new way of sending information. It&#x27;s really a way to use classical communication in order to leverage entanglement to bypass various limitations of quantum mechanics.<p>So, the two people communicating would e.g. start out together and create a pair of entangled systems A and B. The person in possession of system B would then travel far away. The person in possession of system A then decides that they want to teleport a new system C to the person far away. They do this by placing system C next to system A and then performing a measurement on the combined system A+C causing these two states to become entangled. We now have an implicit entanglement between system C and system B that is far away. The person in possession of system A+C now picks up the phone and calls the other person to tell them what the outcome of their measurement on A+C was. The person far away then uses this information to determine a way to manipulate their state B in a certain way (the particular way in which they need to do this depends on the outcome of the measurement of A+C). Once that manipulation is complete, the system they have in their possession (B) is now in the quantum state that C was originally in. The system C, unfortunately has been destroyed in the process.</text></item><item><author>edge17</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m dense, but I still don&#x27;t understand. The cloning explanation made sense to me, but to the original question - how does the recipient know the message is done being sent without the sender picking up the phone and calling the recipient...?<p>i.e. Is there some equivalent of a termination code&#x2F;header sort of thing that the recipient is looking for in the &#x27;bit stream&#x27; or whatever? Or am I not even thinking about this in terms of the right analogy?<p>edit: Thank btw, this comment was fascinating to me.</text></item><item><author>pontus</author><text>Great question! This gets to the heart of why quantum teleportation has any value at all.<p>So, before QM there was already a sense in which you could teleport an object: simply measure its state perfectly and send that information to another location and have them reconstruct that state particle by particle. In principle the new system would be indistinguishable from the original system and you could claim that you&#x27;ve teleported it. Now, with the discovery of quantum mechanics, this process no longer works because there is no way to measure the complete state of a quantum system. For example, you could measure the position of each particle to arbitrary accuracy or you can measure the speed of every particle to arbitrary position, but you can&#x27;t do both (Heisenberg&#x27;s uncertainty principle). So, it would seem like one could not construct a perfect replica of a quantum system in a new location by measuring its state in the original position.<p>The cleverness of quantum teleportation is that you use entanglement to sort of short circuit this limitation. You let entanglement do the heavy lifting to sort of &quot;copy&quot; the state from one location to another and then perform a measurement in the original location to uncover just enough information so that the person in the second location can manipulate its system to reconstruct the original state.<p>It&#x27;s sort of like reconstructing the state without actually knowing what that state is.<p>Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it&#x27;s not like you&#x27;ll end up with two copies of the same thing (which is what would happen in the classical version) so there&#x27;s no discussion necessary around the distinction between teleportation and cloning. Classically you&#x27;d be cloning the system but quantum mechanically you&#x27;d really truly be teleporting it (in fact, there&#x27;s a result in quantum mechanics called &quot;the no cloning theorem&quot; that proves that cloning in QM is impossible).</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what&#x27;s the point?</text></item><item><author>pontus</author><text>You entangle two systems but in order to actually complete the teleportation you need to measure one system and then convey the outcome of that measurement to the other party. This information is needed by the second party in order for them to be able to correctly collapse the state of their system into one that is identical to the original system being teleported. The information that the first party must convey to the receiving party must be sent in a classical way (e.g. a phone call).</text></item><item><author>sabellito</author><text>I&#x27;m confused, as I&#x27;m an enthusiast but definitely no physicist.<p>The article states that quantum information is being teleported via entanglement. However, it was my understanding that one cannot transfer information in such a way as the &quot;information&quot; is only revealed when interacting with the particle.<p>Could someone perhaps clarify what&#x27;s going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapht</author><text>Thanks for all the explanations.<p>I have to say I am always at a loss when quantum physicists start talking about &quot;measurement&quot;.<p>In the classical world, measuring means looking at a particular variable x in a system S at time t, S(t) and via some process specific to x (which we want to measure), Mx, obtain the value of Mx(S(t)).<p>In QM by contrast, it seems that measurement itself has an action upon the system so that measuring in fact means looking at some Mx(Z(S,t)) where you actually never know S but only some kind of end product Z that is believed to reflect S but is itself the result of an unknown operation on S that QM people call &quot;collapse&quot;.<p>So you seek Mx(S) but in fact spend your time looking at Mx(Z(S)) and draw conclusions on S... but I have yet to hear anyone explain to me, physically what is Z, how it works, etc. Lots of statistics, but no real understanding of that &quot;collapse&quot; process.</text></comment> |
26,944,475 | 26,943,954 | 1 | 2 | 26,942,017 | train | <story><title>Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/payments-2-0-scheduled-voice-chats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perryizgr8</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why there are 2 slightly different websites. Both are good, just with minor changes to the fonts and spacing.</text></item><item><author>est</author><text>&gt; With the new web versions you can get instant access to your chats on any device – desktop or mobile. These apps are incredibly efficient, requiring only a 400 KB download (that&#x27;s like two photos of a medium-sized cat) and no installation.<p>webz.telegram.org and webk.telegram.org look amazing.<p>That&#x27;s web apps done right. Small .js files intead of 20MB main.min.js crap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MildlySerious</author><text>Telegram outsources parts of its development into multi-stage coding contests[1] with prize money. I don&#x27;t know why they decided to keep two separate versions in the end, but I assume they both came out of the Javascript contest.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contest.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contest.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/payments-2-0-scheduled-voice-chats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perryizgr8</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why there are 2 slightly different websites. Both are good, just with minor changes to the fonts and spacing.</text></item><item><author>est</author><text>&gt; With the new web versions you can get instant access to your chats on any device – desktop or mobile. These apps are incredibly efficient, requiring only a 400 KB download (that&#x27;s like two photos of a medium-sized cat) and no installation.<p>webz.telegram.org and webk.telegram.org look amazing.<p>That&#x27;s web apps done right. Small .js files intead of 20MB main.min.js crap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenacious_tuna</author><text>They did this a while back with their Android (and iOS?) apps--they had the core Telegram app, and Telegram X. Both had 90% overlapping features, but some subtle differences. It&#x27;s long enough ago that it&#x27;s a bit fuzzy in my head, but I think X had slightly better reply gestures, and maybe chat pinning.<p>Later I think they absorbed the X features into the core app.<p>I can&#x27;t decide if I think it&#x27;s an awesome strategy to launch a self-competing project, or if it just leads to terrible internal issues. I&#x27;m leaning more towards the former--I&#x27;m a huge believer in the instructive power of contrast, and it&#x27;s a lot &quot;safer&quot; to contrast against another one of your own products than a competitor. You control much more of the &quot;experiment&quot;, and you don&#x27;t run the risk of cannibalizing your own users.<p>Plus, from an engineering standpoint, it forces you to have portable technologies and configs, and probably gives your team opportunities to learn from greenfield stuff that can then encourage refactors or other paying-down-tech-debt activities.<p>It&#x27;s also just dang impressive that they&#x27;re able to spin up multiple versions of the same app, and deploy them, and maintain them. That speaks volumes to me about their internal systems, build systems, resource allocation, etc.</text></comment> |
17,407,985 | 17,407,583 | 1 | 3 | 17,403,673 | train | <story><title>Canada Is Preparing Steel Quotas, Tariffs on China and Others</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/canada-said-to-prepare-steel-quotas-tariffs-on-china-others</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Simulacra</author><text> Fascinating. I&#x27;ve always wanted something to be done about China&#x27;s trade abuses, particularly dumping, but also the human rights issues. I really don&#x27;t know enough about trading tariffs but I am very curious: do these tariffs have any chance of improving China&#x27;s behavior?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gotdangloch</author><text>Xi Jing Ping is running scared. The stock market has fallen 25% this year. Yuan has fallen 10%. There&#x27;s a 400 billion tariff coming his way, and because of &#x27;saving face&#x27;, there&#x27;s no way he will back down. He has to also unwind China&#x27;s 12-18T shadow banking, China&#x27;s version of subprime loans similar to 2008 crisis (but way bigger). He has to figure out how to steal IP to move up the chain when US and the rest of the world has upped their defense, restricting Chinese tech investments and resisting hacking attempts. He also needs to deal with the tariffs encouraging manufacturers to leave China and go to southeast asia or back home via reshoring or automation. There is also the matter of a lack of consumer market in China, after it gets shut out of US and europe. Not much Chinese consumers can buy after $800&#x2F;month income, after paying most of it to mortgage and inflated food prices.<p>He also has to prop up the real estate bubble:<p>&quot;price rose 31 percent to nearly $202 per square foot. That&#x27;s 38 percent higher than the median price per square foot in the U.S., where per-capita income is more than 700 percent higher than in China.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-06-24&#x2F;why-china-can-t-fix-its-housing-bubble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-06-24&#x2F;why-china...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Canada Is Preparing Steel Quotas, Tariffs on China and Others</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/canada-said-to-prepare-steel-quotas-tariffs-on-china-others</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Simulacra</author><text> Fascinating. I&#x27;ve always wanted something to be done about China&#x27;s trade abuses, particularly dumping, but also the human rights issues. I really don&#x27;t know enough about trading tariffs but I am very curious: do these tariffs have any chance of improving China&#x27;s behavior?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hrktb</author><text>Arm chair economist here as well. Historically trade abuses are resolved throught the WTO.<p>That&#x27;s what happened when the US had a dispute with Brazil over cotton tarifs protection [0], or countless other trade disputes countries have with each other. Even recently there was a chicken dispute case with China [1].<p>That&#x27;s not perfect in any way, and that&#x27;s crazy slow, but doesn&#x27;t seems worse than playing chicken run through twitter announcements. If the point was really to do something about China&#x27;s trading behavior, I think it would be done through the WTO, and in particular it would need more buying from the other main countries.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brazil–United_States_cotton_dispute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brazil–United_States_cotton_di...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-china-wto-chicken&#x2F;united-states-wins-wto-chicken-ruling-against-china-idUSKBN1F722C" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-china-wto-chicken&#x2F;uni...</a></text></comment> |
23,442,958 | 23,442,224 | 1 | 2 | 23,435,805 | train | <story><title>USB-C is still a mess</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sackofmugs</author><text>That&#x27;s strange, I&#x27;ve never encountered a usb-c cable that did not support data at all. My understanding (and the article suggests) that charging and data are fine in general, but just not as fast as the device can support. Basically they will charge or transfer data at regular usb or micro-usb speeds.</text></item><item><author>itsspring</author><text>Heh, just this week I was struggling to get a device to work with my laptop, until after 90+ minutes I realized there were different types of USB-C, and the one I had (the Apple charger cable) only did charging.<p>I needed one that transmitted video, so I then went to order a $10 USB-C, only to realize those also only did charging. Finally found what I needed, but I thought USB-C was finally &quot;universal&quot;, but turns out much of that is just marketing...<p>Edit: Turns out the one I just bought ($40 USB-C Apple thunderbolt cable) doesn&#x27;t even fit into the device because the edges are too thick. Ridiculous</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsspring</author><text>Ya, I found the answer on Apple&#x27;s site:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT208368" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT208368</a><p>&gt; Compared with Apple USB-C Charge Cable
The Apple USB-C Charge Cable is longer (2m) and also supports charging, but data-transfer speed is limited to 480Mbps (USB 2.0) and it doesn&#x27;t support video. The Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable has Thunderbolt logo on the sleeve of each connector. Either cable can be used with the Apple USB-C Power Adapter.</text></comment> | <story><title>USB-C is still a mess</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sackofmugs</author><text>That&#x27;s strange, I&#x27;ve never encountered a usb-c cable that did not support data at all. My understanding (and the article suggests) that charging and data are fine in general, but just not as fast as the device can support. Basically they will charge or transfer data at regular usb or micro-usb speeds.</text></item><item><author>itsspring</author><text>Heh, just this week I was struggling to get a device to work with my laptop, until after 90+ minutes I realized there were different types of USB-C, and the one I had (the Apple charger cable) only did charging.<p>I needed one that transmitted video, so I then went to order a $10 USB-C, only to realize those also only did charging. Finally found what I needed, but I thought USB-C was finally &quot;universal&quot;, but turns out much of that is just marketing...<p>Edit: Turns out the one I just bought ($40 USB-C Apple thunderbolt cable) doesn&#x27;t even fit into the device because the edges are too thick. Ridiculous</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trav4225</author><text>I definitely have encountered this. One was even a device intended for development via USB. For some strange reason, the USB-C cable shipped with the product only supported power, requiring the customer to buy another cable for data transfer.</text></comment> |
21,988,115 | 21,981,852 | 1 | 3 | 21,980,143 | train | <story><title>Firefox 72.0</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>&gt; lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header.<p>DNT is pretty dead, and IMHO was never a good idea in the first place. Opt-outing of invasive and unethical tracking is just weird. What about people who don&#x27;t know about it? Or don&#x27;t fully understand what it means?<p>It&#x27;s almost like the <i>Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide</i>: &quot;Well, you should have visited the planning department in the disused lavatory with a sign &#x27;beware of the leopard&quot;.<p>I wrote some more about it over here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arp242.net&#x2F;dnt.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arp242.net&#x2F;dnt.html</a></text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Here&#x27;s my Firefox wishlist:<p>- Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn&#x27;t, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome.<p>- Use the platform native key store. I don&#x27;t want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don&#x27;t want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint&#x2F;face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords.<p>- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let&#x27;s move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mintocean</author><text>I always thought the point of DNT wasn’t technical, but to make it impossible to argue either (a) that users don’t really care (many opted in), or (b) that Google et al respect user’s wishes without regulation or technical barriers (they are aware of DNT and its specific meaning and they ignore it). In other words, political maneuvering towards getting the entire industry to accept implementing that technical solution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 72.0</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>&gt; lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header.<p>DNT is pretty dead, and IMHO was never a good idea in the first place. Opt-outing of invasive and unethical tracking is just weird. What about people who don&#x27;t know about it? Or don&#x27;t fully understand what it means?<p>It&#x27;s almost like the <i>Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide</i>: &quot;Well, you should have visited the planning department in the disused lavatory with a sign &#x27;beware of the leopard&quot;.<p>I wrote some more about it over here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arp242.net&#x2F;dnt.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arp242.net&#x2F;dnt.html</a></text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Here&#x27;s my Firefox wishlist:<p>- Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn&#x27;t, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome.<p>- Use the platform native key store. I don&#x27;t want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don&#x27;t want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint&#x2F;face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords.<p>- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let&#x27;s move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>True, but is DNT the lesser evil compared to what we have now, which is only annoyance and effectively no control.</text></comment> |
3,019,018 | 3,018,863 | 1 | 2 | 3,018,073 | train | <story><title>Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done</title><url>http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/hire-for-ability-to-get-shit-done.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I can relate to this, but I can also relate to the other side of the question. Sometimes it isn't me, its you. Take someone who gets things done and suddenly in your organization they aren't delivering. Could be them, but it could also be you.<p>I had this experience working at Google. I had a horrible time getting anything done there. Now I spent a bit of time evaluating that since it had never been the case in my career, up to that point, where I was unable to move the ball forward and I really wanted to understand that. The short answer was that Google had developed a number of people who spent much, if not all, of their time <i>preventing change</i>. It took me a while to figure out what motivated someone to be anti-change.<p>The fear was risk and safety. Folks moved around a lot and so you had people in charge of systems they didn't build, didn't understand all the moving parts of, and were apt to get a poor rating if they broke. When dealing with people in that situation one could either educate them and bring them along, or steam roll over them. Education takes time, and during that time the 'teacher' doesn't get anything done. This favors steamrolling evolutionarily :-)<p>So you can hire someone who gets stuff done, but if getting stuff done in your organization requires them to be an asshole, and they aren't up for that, well they aren't going to be nearly as successful as you would like them to be.<p>The other risk is of course the people who 'get a lot done' but don't need to. Which is to say they can rewrite your CRM system and push it out to the world in a week but only by writing it from scratch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome</author><text>Word f'ing up. I was recently fired from a remarkably relatable situation where a <i>hot ninja</i> startup had no effective intake process, so for orientation I had one pair-programming episode regarding an intensely technical internal aspect of the application before being sent off to fend for myself in their repository. Couple this with an office and project management style predicated on "who can interrupt the loudest?", having multiples of these conversations occur simultaneously, and an absolutely open office plan.<p>But hey, the CEO had sold a previous company for good money so this means he knows what he's doing. I'm sure they'll be a huge success.<p>I'm not saying that I'm God's gift to college-dropout programmers, but I'd never had a problem succeeding in a job until this one. In reaction to this state of affairs I had considered that maybe I need to be at a huge company that has better processes, but your Google tale says maybe otherwise.<p>&#60;/vent&#62;</text></comment> | <story><title>Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done</title><url>http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/hire-for-ability-to-get-shit-done.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I can relate to this, but I can also relate to the other side of the question. Sometimes it isn't me, its you. Take someone who gets things done and suddenly in your organization they aren't delivering. Could be them, but it could also be you.<p>I had this experience working at Google. I had a horrible time getting anything done there. Now I spent a bit of time evaluating that since it had never been the case in my career, up to that point, where I was unable to move the ball forward and I really wanted to understand that. The short answer was that Google had developed a number of people who spent much, if not all, of their time <i>preventing change</i>. It took me a while to figure out what motivated someone to be anti-change.<p>The fear was risk and safety. Folks moved around a lot and so you had people in charge of systems they didn't build, didn't understand all the moving parts of, and were apt to get a poor rating if they broke. When dealing with people in that situation one could either educate them and bring them along, or steam roll over them. Education takes time, and during that time the 'teacher' doesn't get anything done. This favors steamrolling evolutionarily :-)<p>So you can hire someone who gets stuff done, but if getting stuff done in your organization requires them to be an asshole, and they aren't up for that, well they aren't going to be nearly as successful as you would like them to be.<p>The other risk is of course the people who 'get a lot done' but don't need to. Which is to say they can rewrite your CRM system and push it out to the world in a week but only by writing it from scratch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text><i>So you can hire someone who gets stuff done, but if getting stuff done in your organization requires them to be an asshole, and they aren't up for that, well they aren't going to be nearly as successful as you would like them to be.</i><p>You've sort of nailed it. Also what I see is, how much people are addicted to the NIH syndrome. They have a ways of working which they won't change, adapt or even agree debate for their own good.<p>The way I see, too much or too little process are both equally dangerous. The key is neither to over play nor under play the game. Too little management leads to wandering in the wild with no goals, plans, tracking and destination. Often overly delayed projects.<p>Too much management gets in the way of achieving what would have been even easily possible.<p>After all the analysis I can say, sure you may want to hire every smart guy on the market. But you must also know to manage them. Bunch them together, create a positive environment and enable them to be as much productive as they can be. Good people need to be taken care of, Senior developers/architects even though not managers need to have some people skills. Its simple, if interacting with people is a part of your job.. People skills become part of your job.<p>To be good alone is not sufficient, if you are good alone you can probably get a maximum of 9 hours worth of job done everyday. But if you can manage 10 such brilliant guys you can deliver 90 hours of such work every day. But that requires spotless planning, tracking, course correction and most important creating an environment where such people can be productive.<p>Nothing big in software these days can achieved without team work. If a person is not good with teams, may be its time for him to look somewhere else. Being a jerk, rude and arrogant with junior developers may help you give a false sense of superiority but that won't bring you success.</text></comment> |
15,533,377 | 15,532,078 | 1 | 3 | 15,531,823 | train | <story><title>Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen</title><url>https://medium.com/@filip_struharik/biggest-drop-in-organic-reach-weve-ever-seen-b2239323413</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeanutNore</author><text>As a former active user on Facebook, this sort of change may succeed in bringing people like me back to the site. The minimal effort required in hitting that &quot;share&quot; button means that every page that organically reached my friends would end up polluting my news feed as well with crap that I wasn&#x27;t interested in and got in the way of what I had originally joined FB for. If my friends aren&#x27;t seeing these posts, they won&#x27;t be clicking &quot;share&quot; on them either.<p>I&#x27;ve had my account on Facebook since 2004 when it first became available at my university. Since the very beginning it&#x27;s first usefulness was as a Rolodex, basically. I recently stopped using the site (without deactivating my account, because it still serves that digital Rolodex function) because &gt;75% of the posts on my newsfeed were either &quot;organic&quot; ads or propaganda.
Most of the offending posts were things that had been &quot;shared&quot; by my friends and not necessarily even posted by pages I had &quot;liked&quot; or &quot;followed&quot;<p>A principle I&#x27;ve been using recently to help me understand the world around me is that I am not special or unique, and when I do something, a lot of other people who are broadly similar to me are doing the same thing.
So, I assume that there are others like me who have recently been deleting the FB app and avoiding the website, if not deleting their accounts entirely. Facebook is almost certainly aware of it, and while publishers are always going to see stuff like this as a money grab, it may be necessary for the health of the platform for FB to clamp down on publisher patterns that are driving users away.</text></comment> | <story><title>Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen</title><url>https://medium.com/@filip_struharik/biggest-drop-in-organic-reach-weve-ever-seen-b2239323413</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>The best part about Twitter is the simple timeline. Twitter doesn’t care about what the account represents, so all accounts have the same priority.<p>Yes, Twitter has started to mess with its timeline, but that’s besides the point.<p>Facebook’s noise problem is one that they themselves created. Countless of times I found myself subscribed to some page only because I liked one of their posts. Which is bullshit, because in my vocabulary Follow != Like.<p>Then they tried fixing this by prioritizing posts based on a bullshit ranking system only they understand. That didn’t work either.<p>Oh well, maybe we’ll go back full circle after all.</text></comment> |
34,588,207 | 34,586,231 | 1 | 3 | 34,583,670 | train | <story><title>J&J can’t use bankruptcy to resolve talc-injury lawsuits, appeals court rules</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-js-talc-bankruptcy-case-thrown-out-by-appeals-court-11675096308</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scott00</author><text>The article does a bad job explaining what exactly J&amp;J is trying to do here and what exactly the appeals court won&#x27;t let them do.<p>J&amp;J&#x27;s plan was to split into two pieces, which I&#x27;ll call Goodco and Badco. Goodco got the operating assets, Badco got the talc liabilities and more or less immediately filed for bankruptcy. That&#x27;s a maneuver that has come to be called the Texas Two-Step. However there&#x27;s a very important missing piece that seems not to be covered by the article: in addition to the talc liabilities, Badco also got a funding agreement with Goodco, which gives Badco the right to be reimbursed by Goodco for any expenses incurred as a result of the talc liabilities, up to ~60 billion USD, or the value of Goodco, whichever is higher.<p>So J&amp;J&#x27;s play here was not to outright shield their assets from being used to pay talc liabilities, but rather to force the liabilities to be determined by a single bankruptcy process in the near future, rather than tens of thousands of individual lawsuits that would trickle in over the next 100 years or so.<p>The appeals court ruled that because of the funding agreement Badco is not in financial distress, and is therefore ineligible to file for bankruptcy. They did not rule either way as to whether the Texas Two-Step is legal.</text></comment> | <story><title>J&J can’t use bankruptcy to resolve talc-injury lawsuits, appeals court rules</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-js-talc-bankruptcy-case-thrown-out-by-appeals-court-11675096308</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>passwordoops</author><text>Good! Now hold execs financially and criminally responsible, and you have a chance of saving this wonderful experiment in democracy!<p>Oh, and reverse the rulings that led to the Sacklers keeping their fortune</text></comment> |
20,026,115 | 20,024,630 | 1 | 2 | 20,024,318 | train | <story><title>Judge Alsup Slams Patent Troll</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190508/17291342168/judge-alsup-slams-patent-troll-basically-everything.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>It seems strange to me that having prior technical knowledge in some field is seen as an assett in a judge, but a reason to disqualify a juror.<p>Is it the case that lawyers don&#x27;t want anyone to understand the technical issues, but they only have the ability to get rid of potential jurors, not judges?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>The plaintiff needs a unanimous decision by the jury to win, and has a limited amount of time to present arguments and to counter defense arguments. The Court actually keeps track of time used, and will cut them when they hit the limit.<p>The more uniform your audience is, the better chance you have to craft an argument that will work with all of them.<p>Suppose the trial involves some specialized field, and you have a jury with a wide range of knowledge about that field. Both plaintiff and defendant are going to include in their cases an explanation of the relevant field, pitched for the backgrounds of the jurors with the least prior knowledge.<p>If the jury also has people who are experts in that field, there are at least three potential problems.<p>1. They are going to be bored during the part where you are explaining the field to the rest of the jury, and might let their minds wander, and might miss something important.<p>2. Your primer on their field necessarily simplifies things, and if you simplify in a different way than they would, it could prejudice them against your case.<p>3. The other jurors may turn to them for guidance on the evidence relating to that field. That&#x27;s problematical for two reasons.<p>3a. If the evidence relating to the field is in an area where experts in that field disagree, the other jurors will get the position of the expert juror, and will probably give that more weight than the testimony of exports at trial who take a different position.<p>In effect, the expert juror ends up also as a de facto expert witness in the trial--but an expert witness not subject to examination or cross examination.<p>3b. There is a danger that if the jury turns to the expert juror for help on the technical evidence, they will also tend to give more weight to that juror&#x27;s opinion on the rest of evidence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge Alsup Slams Patent Troll</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190508/17291342168/judge-alsup-slams-patent-troll-basically-everything.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>It seems strange to me that having prior technical knowledge in some field is seen as an assett in a judge, but a reason to disqualify a juror.<p>Is it the case that lawyers don&#x27;t want anyone to understand the technical issues, but they only have the ability to get rid of potential jurors, not judges?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kryogen1c</author><text>Incentive structures for lawyers are based on winning. Its easier to convince someone ignorant that youre correct when you can supply (again, winning-incentivized) expert testimony that proves youre correct, instead of hoping the jury sees it your way.</text></comment> |
28,825,716 | 28,825,043 | 1 | 2 | 28,802,306 | train | <story><title>Google adds a guitar tuner to Search</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/google-guitar-tuner-search-113540630.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoying, until one day it <i>forced</i> me to watch a 30 second ad before tuning my guitar. The <i>one</i> thing that I enjoyed to get away from computers and their....bother.<p>That day I went out and bought 4...FOUR snark clip on tuners, and another Korg. I deleted that stupid app and have not looked back.<p>I don&#x27;t want to go back to sucky software apps replacing fully functional, well-designed single-purpose devices. There&#x27;s just too much pull to make them into g****mn ad platforms.<p>Google search also has a crappy metronome. It sucks. I use my analog metronome all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sriram_malhar</author><text>You are dissing a product that you didn&#x27;t pay money for, and comparing it unfavorably to one that you did. How is that fair.<p>There are metronome and tuner apps that are way more pleasant and functional than any hardware product, if you could shell out just a few bucks (&lt; $10). You also have fewer batteries to manage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google adds a guitar tuner to Search</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/google-guitar-tuner-search-113540630.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoying, until one day it <i>forced</i> me to watch a 30 second ad before tuning my guitar. The <i>one</i> thing that I enjoyed to get away from computers and their....bother.<p>That day I went out and bought 4...FOUR snark clip on tuners, and another Korg. I deleted that stupid app and have not looked back.<p>I don&#x27;t want to go back to sucky software apps replacing fully functional, well-designed single-purpose devices. There&#x27;s just too much pull to make them into g****mn ad platforms.<p>Google search also has a crappy metronome. It sucks. I use my analog metronome all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>F-droid shows at least a dozen different apps, none of them with ads. Even if the open source apps were not a perfect fit for your case, you could have taken 10% of the money you spent and made everyone&#x27;s life better.</text></comment> |
5,673,645 | 5,671,898 | 1 | 3 | 5,671,652 | train | <story><title>John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell</title><url>https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/331918309916295168</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text>In case you were not aware, the iOS source code for Wolfenstein 3D Classic Platinum is licensed under GPL. It is available here:<p><a href="http://download.zenimax.com/idsoftware/src/wolf3d_ios_v21_src.zip" rel="nofollow">http://download.zenimax.com/idsoftware/src/wolf3d_ios_v21_sr...</a><p>I thought this story was cool:<p><i>"[...] They were using the software rasterizer on the iPhone. I patted myself on the back a bit for the fact that the combination of my updated mobile renderer, the intelligent level design / restricted movement, and the hi-res artwork made the software renderer almost visually indistinguishable from a hardware renderer, but I was very unhappy about the implementation.<p>I told EA that we were NOT going to ship that as the first Id Software product on the iPhone. Using the iPhone's hardware 3D acceleration was a requirement, and it should be easy -- when I did the second generation mobile renderer (written originally in java) it was layered on top of a class I named TinyGL that did the transform / clip / rasterize operations fairly close to OpenGL semantics, but in fixed point and with both horizontal and vertical rasterization options for perspective correction. The developers came back and said it would take two months and exceed their budget.<p>Rather than having a big confrontation over the issue, I told them to just send the project to me and I would do it myself. Cass Everitt had been doing some personal work on the iPhone, so he helped me get everything set up for local iPhone development here, which is a lot more tortuous than you would expect from an Apple product. As usual, my off the cuff estimate of "Two days!" was optimistic, but I did get it done in four, and the game is definitely more pleasant at 8x the frame rate.<p>And I had fun doing it."</i> [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.idsoftware.com/iphone-games/wolfenstein-3d-classic-platinum/wolfdevelopment.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.idsoftware.com/iphone-games/wolfenstein-3d-classi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell</title><url>https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/331918309916295168</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thezilch</author><text><i>I also had to make one last minute hack change to the original media -- the Red Cross organization had asserted their trademark rights over red crosses (sigh) some time after we released the original Wolfenstein 3D game, and all new game releases must not use red crosses on white backgrounds as health symbols. One single, solitary sprite graphic got modified for this release.</i><p>I always wondered about color choices for some games' health packs.</text></comment> |
10,023,735 | 10,023,836 | 1 | 2 | 10,023,336 | train | <story><title>Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryh</author><text>This article, and in particular the title, is horrible and shows no understanding of the math in play. The facts do not indicate that the dog &quot;is barely more accurate than a coinflip&quot; if 59% of the indications in question turn out to actually have drugs.<p>Out of 1000 samples the dog is positively indicating for 930 of the (93% of the time) of which 549 are true positives and 381 are false positives. Let&#x27;s be generous and say that all 70 remaining are true negatives.<p>If the dog was subbed out for a coin flip we would have a positive indicator 500 times of which 274 would be true positives and 226 would be false positives. We would then have 275 false negatives and 225 true negatives.<p>So subbing in the dog for a coin catches 275 drug carriers at the expense of an extra 155 false positives. We can argue about whether that is good enough but comparing it to a coinflip makes no sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elif</author><text>When i was moving and literally everything i owned and cared about was pulled out of my car at 2am and strewn on the sidewalk in the rain for hours, the &quot;extra 155 false positives&quot; seemed to matter a little more to me than it does to you.<p>This isn&#x27;t a clinical study where the stats are everything. This is a real world situation where people are being profiled and it is legalized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryh</author><text>This article, and in particular the title, is horrible and shows no understanding of the math in play. The facts do not indicate that the dog &quot;is barely more accurate than a coinflip&quot; if 59% of the indications in question turn out to actually have drugs.<p>Out of 1000 samples the dog is positively indicating for 930 of the (93% of the time) of which 549 are true positives and 381 are false positives. Let&#x27;s be generous and say that all 70 remaining are true negatives.<p>If the dog was subbed out for a coin flip we would have a positive indicator 500 times of which 274 would be true positives and 226 would be false positives. We would then have 275 false negatives and 225 true negatives.<p>So subbing in the dog for a coin catches 275 drug carriers at the expense of an extra 155 false positives. We can argue about whether that is good enough but comparing it to a coinflip makes no sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The article&#x27;s whole analysis is fucked up because it ignores the prior probability.<p>&gt; In U.S. v. Bentley, we see just how damaging the Harris decision really was. Lex, the drug dog that searched Bentley’s car, had a 93 percent alert rate. That is, when Lex was called to search a car, he alerted 93 percent of the time. He was basically a probable cause generator. His success rate was much lower, at 59 percent.<p>In other words, drugs were found in <i>55%</i> of cars in which he was brought in.[1] The base rate for drug possession in a car is almost certainly a tiny fraction of that. So between the human judgment to bring in Lex, and Lex&#x27;s sniffing, the police are able to find drugs at probabilities that are multiples of the base rate. In contrast, if you searched cars based on a coin flip (i.e. randomly), you&#x27;d expect to find drugs exactly at the base rate.<p>[1] Being successful &gt; 50% of the time is pretty much the definition of probable cause.</text></comment> |
40,670,128 | 40,670,505 | 1 | 2 | 40,668,504 | train | <story><title>Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll</title><url>https://avherald.com/h?article=519ce679</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agurk</author><text>I&#x27;m not aware of a B-52 being crashed in a barrel roll, but this did make me think of the 1994 Fairchild crash[0] that was caused by a pilot who was known as dangerous due to excessive self confidence. In this case he banked too tightly at low level causing a stall into the ground. The whole crash was caught on camera[1], which is indelibly burnt into my memory.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_...</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaviationgeekclub.com&#x2F;the-story-of-bud-holland-the-rogue-pilot-that-crashed-his-b-52-after-having-maneuvered-it-beyond-its-operational-limits-at-low-altitude&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaviationgeekclub.com&#x2F;the-story-of-bud-holland-the...</a></text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>Not as scary as flying upside down which is what I originally thought based on title alone. Most people are familiar with &quot;barrel roll&quot; but by comparison this just looks like wiggling.<p>Counterintuitively though my understanding is that barrel rolls are generally safe even for large planes since it&#x27;s a stable 1G maneuver (some jock irresponsible air force pilot used to regularly barrel roll B-52s until he did one too low and killed himself and the crew)...</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;Dutch Roll is a coupled out of phase movement of the aircraft as result of weakened directional stability (provided by the vertical tail and rudder), in which the aircraft oscillates around its vertical as well as longitudinal axis (coupled yaw and roll).&quot;
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That sounds pretty scary. I wonder why it wasn&#x27;t bigger news when it happened last month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neuronic</author><text>The last 3 seconds of your life as the copilot must have been some revolting emotion knowing that the overconfident asshole in the seat next to you just killed you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll</title><url>https://avherald.com/h?article=519ce679</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agurk</author><text>I&#x27;m not aware of a B-52 being crashed in a barrel roll, but this did make me think of the 1994 Fairchild crash[0] that was caused by a pilot who was known as dangerous due to excessive self confidence. In this case he banked too tightly at low level causing a stall into the ground. The whole crash was caught on camera[1], which is indelibly burnt into my memory.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_...</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaviationgeekclub.com&#x2F;the-story-of-bud-holland-the-rogue-pilot-that-crashed-his-b-52-after-having-maneuvered-it-beyond-its-operational-limits-at-low-altitude&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaviationgeekclub.com&#x2F;the-story-of-bud-holland-the...</a></text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>Not as scary as flying upside down which is what I originally thought based on title alone. Most people are familiar with &quot;barrel roll&quot; but by comparison this just looks like wiggling.<p>Counterintuitively though my understanding is that barrel rolls are generally safe even for large planes since it&#x27;s a stable 1G maneuver (some jock irresponsible air force pilot used to regularly barrel roll B-52s until he did one too low and killed himself and the crew)...</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;Dutch Roll is a coupled out of phase movement of the aircraft as result of weakened directional stability (provided by the vertical tail and rudder), in which the aircraft oscillates around its vertical as well as longitudinal axis (coupled yaw and roll).&quot;
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That sounds pretty scary. I wonder why it wasn&#x27;t bigger news when it happened last month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipdart</author><text>Dutch roll, Bud Holland... Netherlands trifecta is in play.</text></comment> |
8,957,668 | 8,956,029 | 1 | 2 | 8,954,737 | train | <story><title>Long term support considered harmful</title><url>http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-considered-harmful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edofic</author><text>&quot;Since there&#x27;s no way to roll back server upgrades&quot;<p>It is if you run a modern filesystem like ZFS or btrfs. You just do a cheap snapshot before upgrading(can be automated) and roll back if there are problems. Even works with lvm.</text></item><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&gt; <i>Frequent upgrades amortize the cost and ensure that regressions are caught early. No one upgrade is likely to end in disaster because there simply isn’t enough change for that to happen.</i><p>Oh, how I wish this were true.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, it&#x27;s pretty true as far as OpenBSD is concerned, in my experience. But OpenBSD is the exception here, not the rule. Everywhere else, developers all seem to have embraced &quot;break early, break often&quot;.<p>Eventually you get burned. For me, it was a routine should-have-been-minor web server update where one of the packages I relied on suddenly became unsupported and <i>every single hosted site stopped working</i>. Since there&#x27;s no way to roll back server upgrades, I had a marathon night involving building a new server stack and migrating all hosted sites there by 8 a.m.<p>But you can&#x27;t yell at anybody when that happens, because the answer&#x27;s always the same: it&#x27;s not the developers&#x27; fault.<p>Who really believes sysadmins wouldn&#x27;t update everything all the time if they could? Old, dodgy, out-of-date servers exist exactly because updates are butthole-puckering, because everyone&#x27;s been burned at least once by a &quot;minor&quot; update, and because once the damage is done, undoing it is horrifyingly difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KaiserPro</author><text>Sadly as zfs isn&#x27;t as widely available as I&#x27;d like, you can use LVM to provide snapshots.<p>Its not as friendly as ZFS snapshots, but it is at least available in centos 5 <a href="https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/snapshot_command.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.centos.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;5&#x2F;html&#x2F;Cluster_Logical_Volume_Ma...</a><p>(sadly somethings need long term support)</text></comment> | <story><title>Long term support considered harmful</title><url>http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-considered-harmful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edofic</author><text>&quot;Since there&#x27;s no way to roll back server upgrades&quot;<p>It is if you run a modern filesystem like ZFS or btrfs. You just do a cheap snapshot before upgrading(can be automated) and roll back if there are problems. Even works with lvm.</text></item><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&gt; <i>Frequent upgrades amortize the cost and ensure that regressions are caught early. No one upgrade is likely to end in disaster because there simply isn’t enough change for that to happen.</i><p>Oh, how I wish this were true.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, it&#x27;s pretty true as far as OpenBSD is concerned, in my experience. But OpenBSD is the exception here, not the rule. Everywhere else, developers all seem to have embraced &quot;break early, break often&quot;.<p>Eventually you get burned. For me, it was a routine should-have-been-minor web server update where one of the packages I relied on suddenly became unsupported and <i>every single hosted site stopped working</i>. Since there&#x27;s no way to roll back server upgrades, I had a marathon night involving building a new server stack and migrating all hosted sites there by 8 a.m.<p>But you can&#x27;t yell at anybody when that happens, because the answer&#x27;s always the same: it&#x27;s not the developers&#x27; fault.<p>Who really believes sysadmins wouldn&#x27;t update everything all the time if they could? Old, dodgy, out-of-date servers exist exactly because updates are butthole-puckering, because everyone&#x27;s been burned at least once by a &quot;minor&quot; update, and because once the damage is done, undoing it is horrifyingly difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Ooh, thanks. That&#x27;s a good idea. I&#x27;d never considered running ZFS on my small servers.</text></comment> |
3,723,479 | 3,723,418 | 1 | 3 | 3,723,323 | train | <story><title>Why I Don't Want to Learn Go</title><url>http://arantaday.com/why-i-dont-want-to-learn-go</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>Go is designed for large codebases, which is a problem that the author may not have, and so he may not see the benefits.<p>One key feature is that the Go compiler itself is the style guide: it automatically reformats your code to remove style guide violations. This makes it easy to work on a codebase the size of Google's because everything looks like it was written by the same person. We try to do the same thing for C++, Java, and Python, but it doesn't work as well because the process is manual.<p>Similarly, compilation time and runtime for every component, no matter how unimportant, is of utmost importance for Google's codebase. It may not matter how long it takes to run one one-off script, and it may not matter to you how long it takes to compile, but it does matter at Google because we compile every project and run every test after every commit. (OK, builds and tests that are obviously unaffected are skipped. But it's still a lot of code being built and tested.) So your Python project that takes 5 seconds to run tests instead of 1 second ends up wasting decades of CPU time throughout its life time. Same for C++ projects that take many hours to compile. Go tries to be as expressive as Python and run as fast as Java (and compile faster than anything else), and this saves lots of time in aggregate. (Remember, when you break someone's build, the delay between submitting your change and the system knowing about the breakage can result in a lot of hair-pulling for the developers on the project you broke. But if we can know the build is broken before the change is even submitted, then many hours of developer productivity are saved.)<p>Anyway, don't take this to mean that you're doing software wrong if you don't see the value of Go. Google is a special case and just because we have some problem doesn't mean you should have the same problems. One-man shops should optimize for individual efficiency instead of aggregate efficiency like Google does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Don't Want to Learn Go</title><url>http://arantaday.com/why-i-dont-want-to-learn-go</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>babarock</author><text>Unfortunately, as much as I want to agree with it, the article seriously lacks any credibility. Go claims to present high-level features (namely GC) for low-level system programming. Obviously, this sounds new and ground-breaking. Simply dismissing it on account that "GC is unacceptable [for low level problems]" is nothing short of stating a disbelief: it doesn't prove anything.<p>If anyone wants to prove any shortcoming, than maybe they should come up with a more technical analysis, or at least some sort of benchmarking.</text></comment> |
18,336,805 | 18,336,704 | 1 | 3 | 18,334,995 | train | <story><title>Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qubax</author><text>&gt; Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &quot;scientific research&quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice.<p>The whales they research aren&#x27;t endangered. Also, other nations and people hunt whales.<p>&gt; Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &quot;research&quot; on? What about 1 month?<p>That&#x27;s a possibility. But more likely, it&#x27;ll create more tiger&#x2F;rhino &quot;farms&quot;. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is debatable just like trophy hunting.<p>Also, the threat to tigers and rhinos aren&#x27;t poachers. It&#x27;s loss of habitat due to human population growth. Where humans live in numbers, it&#x27;s hard to have tigers and rhinos around because they can easily kill humans. It&#x27;s why most tigers and rhinos in the world today are in zoos or wildlife enclosures.</text></item><item><author>calgoo</author><text>Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &quot;scientific research&quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice. Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &quot;research&quot; on? What about 1 month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>&quot;Also, other nations and people hunt whales.&quot;<p>A grand total of ...two. And not at the scale of the Japanese. Iceland even exports whale meat to the Japanese because they don&#x27;t eat enough of it. To top it off, Japan has to subsidize the &quot;industry&quot; (quotes used because Japan claims it&#x27;s for research) because it&#x27;s unprofitable.<p>Sources:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mg21729043-000-taxpayers-money-keeps-japans-whaling-fleet-afloat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mg21729043-000-taxpayer...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifaw.org&#x2F;united-states&#x2F;our-work&#x2F;whales&#x2F;which-countries-are-still-whaling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifaw.org&#x2F;united-states&#x2F;our-work&#x2F;whales&#x2F;which-cou...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;earth&#x2F;story&#x2F;20151203-why-do-some-countries-still-hunt-whales" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;earth&#x2F;story&#x2F;20151203-why-do-some-countrie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qubax</author><text>&gt; Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &quot;scientific research&quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice.<p>The whales they research aren&#x27;t endangered. Also, other nations and people hunt whales.<p>&gt; Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &quot;research&quot; on? What about 1 month?<p>That&#x27;s a possibility. But more likely, it&#x27;ll create more tiger&#x2F;rhino &quot;farms&quot;. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is debatable just like trophy hunting.<p>Also, the threat to tigers and rhinos aren&#x27;t poachers. It&#x27;s loss of habitat due to human population growth. Where humans live in numbers, it&#x27;s hard to have tigers and rhinos around because they can easily kill humans. It&#x27;s why most tigers and rhinos in the world today are in zoos or wildlife enclosures.</text></item><item><author>calgoo</author><text>Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &quot;scientific research&quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice. Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &quot;research&quot; on? What about 1 month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>&gt; Also, the threat to tigers and rhinos aren&#x27;t poachers.<p>Actually that&#x27;s a big threat, sorry to burst your bubble, they&#x27;re threatened by multiple different human factors.</text></comment> |
30,406,666 | 30,405,363 | 1 | 3 | 30,404,819 | train | <story><title>List of free cybersecurity services and tools from US CISA</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/free-cybersecurity-services-and-tools</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>romaniv</author><text>I don&#x27;t trust any government agency that sponsors and publishes literal propaganda:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cisa.gov&#x2F;resilience-series-graphic-novels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cisa.gov&#x2F;resilience-series-graphic-novels</a><p>Especially when it&#x27;s designed to encourage a kind of pro-establishment paranoia and hysteria.<p>They have section about NATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT that mentions 5G (which isn&#x27;t even fully deployed and barely used yet) and doesn&#x27;t mention the fact that US doesn&#x27;t manufacture antibiotics and many essential drugs domestically?<p>Their whole website has a very bizarre feel to it. It does not look like a normal government website. No, I&#x27;m not talking about design, but the kind of subjects they cover and how they cover them. Click around.</text></comment> | <story><title>List of free cybersecurity services and tools from US CISA</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/free-cybersecurity-services-and-tools</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sha256sum</author><text>I wonder about the trust aspect of CISAs vulnerability scanning offers towards businesses. Do business owners jump at the opportunity to take advantage of this? I don’t see it.<p>It’d be beneficial but I wonder if the general sentiment would caution against a federal agency sniffing out vulnerabilities.</text></comment> |
33,034,384 | 33,034,317 | 1 | 2 | 33,032,996 | train | <story><title>Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP</title><url>https://www.uber.com/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two-orders-of-magnitude-using-clp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hobs</author><text>This just in, Uber rediscovers what all us database people already knew, structured data is usually way easier to compress and store and index and query than unstructured blobs of text, which is why we kept telling you to stop storing json in your databases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dewey</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing wrong with storing json in your database if the tradeoffs are clear and it&#x27;s used in a sensible way.<p>Having structured data and an additional json&#x2F;jsonb column where it makes sense can be very powerful. There&#x27;s a reason every new release of Postgres improves on the performance and features available for the json data type. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.5&#x2F;functions-json.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.5&#x2F;functions-json.html</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP</title><url>https://www.uber.com/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two-orders-of-magnitude-using-clp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hobs</author><text>This just in, Uber rediscovers what all us database people already knew, structured data is usually way easier to compress and store and index and query than unstructured blobs of text, which is why we kept telling you to stop storing json in your databases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>Yeah it’s silly, even when Spark is writing unstructured logs, that doesn’t mean that you can‘t parse them after-the-fact and store them in a structured way. Even if it doesn’t work for 100% of the cases, it’s very easy to achieve for 99% of them, in which case you’ll still keep a “raw_message” column which you can query as text.<p>Next up: Uber discovers column oriented databases are more efficient for data warehouses.</text></comment> |
21,933,089 | 21,932,730 | 1 | 2 | 21,932,004 | train | <story><title>Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>&gt;&quot;But the extraordinary case draws attention to how dictatorships are increasingly using technology to crush online dissent.&quot;<p>Yes, authoritarian regimes control communication. That&#x27;s been the case for over a century of radio and mass circulation dailies. It&#x27;s nothing new.<p>What is new is that even democratic countries are controlling free speech via speech laws or often the private companies engaging in evaluating what&#x27;s permissible speech and not above and beyond what laws require. To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;. It&#x27;s basically come to mean &quot;point of view in disagreement with my group&#x27;s current position which may change in the future&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text><i>To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s a rather specious argument when you have the current example of a democracy (India) simply shutting down large parts of the internet for political reasons, not to mention the widespread deployment of surveillance tech in numerous developed countries.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that you don&#x27;t have a point, but if you&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s a more pressing issue than those you might be suffering from a loss of perspective. After all, &#x27;hate speech&#x27; is widely unpopular (as opposed to being a highly popular thing suppressed by authoritarian states, and much &#x27;hate speech&#x27; treats of the desire to operate an authoritarian state that will restrict or outright terminate the freedoms&#x2F;lives of the hated subjects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>&gt;&quot;But the extraordinary case draws attention to how dictatorships are increasingly using technology to crush online dissent.&quot;<p>Yes, authoritarian regimes control communication. That&#x27;s been the case for over a century of radio and mass circulation dailies. It&#x27;s nothing new.<p>What is new is that even democratic countries are controlling free speech via speech laws or often the private companies engaging in evaluating what&#x27;s permissible speech and not above and beyond what laws require. To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;. It&#x27;s basically come to mean &quot;point of view in disagreement with my group&#x27;s current position which may change in the future&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>I disagree this is nothing new, it&#x27;s an unprecedented intrusion into private discourse but I understand why it doesn&#x27;t seem to be so. After all, previously private forms of communication such as direct speech are still private and written letters are still roughly as hard to intercept en masse than they were. The only change is in access to new forms of communication.<p>I think that&#x27;s enough of a change though to constitute a grave new threat even within already oppressive regimes. Public real time messaging systems like twitter and wechat are fundamentally reshaping public discourse. We can&#x27;t just say that &quot;oh well, just stick to the old ways of communication and you&#x27;ll be fine&quot;. If the fundamental way people communicate changes, then the fact that this change enables unprecedented levels of centralised monitoring and intervention does change things a lot. Even beyond intervention is specific conversations or consequences for individuals, it gives such regimes an unprecedented insight into the opinions and attitudes of their population as a whole and various sub-groups within it and opportunities to shape and act on those.</text></comment> |
17,819,141 | 17,817,893 | 1 | 2 | 17,817,334 | train | <story><title>Google Data Collection research</title><url>https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gooftop</author><text>In some ways not surprised, but its still a LOT of data (in sheer volume). Does Google even keep the data and analyze it, or is much of it thrown away as digital exhaust? Anyone know?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Data Collection research</title><url>https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arnjerobben</author><text>PDF: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalcontentnext.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalcontentnext.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;DC...</a></text></comment> |
27,287,825 | 27,287,547 | 1 | 2 | 27,286,326 | train | <story><title>Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection</title><url>https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/good-news-mild-covid-19-induces-lasting-antibody-protection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shoto_io</author><text>It insane how people&#x2F;media outlets simply ignored what has happened in our past.<p>We had many pandemics. Why should this virus now be radically different? Our immune system would not have survived so long if we kept getting critically sick from virii our system has seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thewarrior</author><text>Let me give you a counter example. A friend of mine is only 25 years old and fit (resting heart rate below 70). They got infected with Covid twice within 2 months. They tested positive on a PCR test.
The second infection was significantly worse and they are constantly out of breath and struggling with pneumonia.<p>Do not underestimate this disease. Especially the new Indian variant.<p>Having antibodies is not necessarily the same as being protected. Especially in the light of variants and the fact that antibodies can wane over time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection</title><url>https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/good-news-mild-covid-19-induces-lasting-antibody-protection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shoto_io</author><text>It insane how people&#x2F;media outlets simply ignored what has happened in our past.<p>We had many pandemics. Why should this virus now be radically different? Our immune system would not have survived so long if we kept getting critically sick from virii our system has seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregoriol</author><text>A year ago we didn&#x27;t know how &quot;bad&quot; that new virus was; now we don&#x27;t know how bad any new variant can be.<p>There have been many pandemics, and many people have died; we try to prevent many people from dying.<p>Some pandemics have not much &quot;survive&quot; or end: Ebola, HIV, ... so we better double-check any new one before being ok with it.</text></comment> |
24,368,226 | 24,367,746 | 1 | 2 | 24,366,614 | train | <story><title>30-35 percent of Covid-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis</title><url>https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdminhbg</author><text>A Twitter thread here gives more context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DanWetzel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1301591392473538560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DanWetzel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1301591392473538560</a><p>&gt; Wayne Sebastianelli was clear that B10 hasn&#x27;t cardiac MRI&#x27;d every athlete who tested positive for Covid. However, among ones that were cardiac MRI&#x27;d (don&#x27;t know number or why they were MRI&#x27;d) about 1&#x2F;3 &quot;had the level of inflammation that was determined to be myocarditis.&quot;<p>...<p>&gt; One more thing: it wasn’t a “study.” It appears he got this info somewhat informally from other athletic doctors from other schools, which may explain the rough numbers.<p>Among other things.<p>So I&#x27;d recommend at least changing the title, as it&#x27;s not actually the case (that we know of) that 1&#x2F;3 of covid-positive players have myocarditis, just 1&#x2F;3 of covid-positive players who were MRIed.<p>Update: It doesn&#x27;t seem like any other schools are actually seeing this according to reports here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saturdaytradition.com&#x2F;big-ten-football&#x2F;report-multiple-b1g-schools-say-were-not-experiencing-high-levels-of-myocarditis-among-student-athletes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saturdaytradition.com&#x2F;big-ten-football&#x2F;report-multip...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>30-35 percent of Covid-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis</title><url>https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haubey</author><text>I&#x27;m a young guy, 25, with no underlying health conditions. Could stand to lose 10-15 pounds. Covid put me on my back for a good two weeks. Even now, five and a half months after I had it, I still get some headaches and chest pain if I do anything too strenuous.<p>I don&#x27;t really consider myself a long-hauler, based on what I&#x27;ve read of their symptoms I&#x27;m way better off. I know at some point reading stuff like this is fear mongering because anybody can drop dead for any reason at any time. But I still check everything every day, to make sure that I&#x27;m alright. It&#x27;s hard to communicate to people who haven&#x27;t had it yet that you don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going to set it off.</text></comment> |
23,506,210 | 23,505,978 | 1 | 3 | 23,505,608 | train | <story><title>Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps5-new-era-of-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ardit33</author><text>I hate to say it but this SSD story has been plastered all over the news by the PR machine, mainly because the new consoles have no other inovations whatsoever....<p>No, it is not going to usher a new area of gaming, just make game have less &#x27;loading&#x27; screens, and perhaps larger open worlds.... but it is no near the innovation and changes we experiences in the 90s and early 2000&#x27;s....<p>Let me say in a more popular language: History has demonstrated that gamers don&#x27;t give a f@ck on how fast is the SSD....
PS1 won over N64 even though it had huge loading times, compared to near instantaneous N64&#x27;s loading screens....<p>I meant, personally, i think it is great, as PS4 loading time are bad, but just fast loading time it is not going to make me buy a game.<p>Anyway, just a sad PR piece trying to get people exited for something that looks a small (but good) evolutionary improvement over the current PS4 Pro&#x2F;Xbox X.<p>Now if we had custom fast&#x2F;ray-casting technology, than it would have been exiting. But it looks like if enabled, a game will either have to drop resolutions and cap frame-rates to barely playable 30fps.<p>But, hey your SSD will be fast.....</text></comment> | <story><title>Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps5-new-era-of-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GiorgioG</author><text>It&#x27;s about time. SSDs have been around a very long time, and without a supported way of swapping out the internal hard drive, console gamers are penalized with long waits vs PCs where SSDs have become fairly standard.</text></comment> |
3,863,667 | 3,863,700 | 1 | 2 | 3,863,298 | train | <story><title>HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandall10</author><text>The thing that bothers me most about this is I credit HBO for leading the charge with innovative content that as a whole brought TV to a much higher level. They took big chances even when it wasn't profitable to do so.<p>I've had a serious love affair with the network beginning with Dream On, The Larry Sanders Show, then moving on to Oz (yeah it was a 'male' soap opera I guess :), Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Deadwood - which I didn't particularly _love_, but highly respected, and most of all The Wire (best thing to ever grace the screen IMO - they lost $$ on it throughout its run)... and then I killed my cable sub and haven't seen anything of their's since.<p>Now Mad Men and Breaking Bad are my two favorite shows, they're both on AMC, and I can easily purchase each season on iTunes HD for just north of $30. Every episode is available hours after they originally air. I'd pay twice that much.<p>Of course, the problem is HBO is just too tightly coupled to big cable. They're one of the main attractions, and as such the kickbacks they get are tied to contracts that prevent them from wresting their content to any great degree. Until this model changes, their A content won't see the light of day, and more draconian measures are likely to be put in place to thwart piracy. It's not HBO itself per-see, but HBO as a proxy for big cable; as a defense mechanism to prop up a flailing business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdludlow</author><text>Our experiences are nearly mirror images. I cancelled cable TV years ago. When Game of Thrones came out last year, I naively thought "No big deal. I'll just pay HBO for streaming." I was shocked to discover that there's no way for me to upend my wallet into HBO's coffers without funneling it through Comcast and buying multiple tiers of garbage that I care nothing about.<p>I waited a year and bought the blu ray version, but I still can't understand why HBO wouldn't prefer to get their money earlier rather than later.</text></comment> | <story><title>HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandall10</author><text>The thing that bothers me most about this is I credit HBO for leading the charge with innovative content that as a whole brought TV to a much higher level. They took big chances even when it wasn't profitable to do so.<p>I've had a serious love affair with the network beginning with Dream On, The Larry Sanders Show, then moving on to Oz (yeah it was a 'male' soap opera I guess :), Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Deadwood - which I didn't particularly _love_, but highly respected, and most of all The Wire (best thing to ever grace the screen IMO - they lost $$ on it throughout its run)... and then I killed my cable sub and haven't seen anything of their's since.<p>Now Mad Men and Breaking Bad are my two favorite shows, they're both on AMC, and I can easily purchase each season on iTunes HD for just north of $30. Every episode is available hours after they originally air. I'd pay twice that much.<p>Of course, the problem is HBO is just too tightly coupled to big cable. They're one of the main attractions, and as such the kickbacks they get are tied to contracts that prevent them from wresting their content to any great degree. Until this model changes, their A content won't see the light of day, and more draconian measures are likely to be put in place to thwart piracy. It's not HBO itself per-see, but HBO as a proxy for big cable; as a defense mechanism to prop up a flailing business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text>I couldn't agree more, as both a fan of HBO's content and a curious observer of its evolving business model.<p>For awhile there, it seemed as if HBO was making great strides in decoupling itself from the traditional cable model. HBO GO is a great app, and its launch represented an intriguing challenge to the status quo of the analog and digital content ecosystems.<p>We should keep in mind, however, that HBO is owned by Time Warner -- a company with plenty of vested interests in the status quo, not to mention a number of other cable and broadcast channels (CNN, Cartoon Network, CW, etc.) whose existence as discrete networks would be (in its view) threatened by overly disruptive maneuvers by one of its subsidiaries.<p>Furthermore, HBO's bread is buttered by the big cable providers. It makes the majority of its revenue from licensing fees to the likes of Comcast, Time Warner Cable (<i>not</i> presently owned by Time Warner, fwiw), AT&#38;T, and the others.<p>Ultimately, I get the impression that HBO -- were it an independent business entity -- would be acting more aggressively to move away from the status quo. It seems to realize that it's aboard a slowly sinking ship. Unfortunately, it happens to be an officer of that ship's crew.</text></comment> |
12,704,345 | 12,704,406 | 1 | 2 | 12,704,160 | train | <story><title>Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?</title><url>http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/business/economy/pastry-workers-restaurant-job-training.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20161013&nl=dealbook&nl_art=1&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&referer=</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bootload</author><text><i>&quot;the salaries of pastry makers in the Chicago area do not appear to have budged much, if at all. The key to this puzzle tells us a lot about why the American economy isn’t necessarily behaving the way workers have traditionally assumed. ... Employers, according to those in the industry, have increasingly turned to less experienced workers to ensure the flow of sweets&quot;</i><p>The drive to employ cheaper, okay workers in action. Applies to software development as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?</title><url>http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/business/economy/pastry-workers-restaurant-job-training.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20161013&nl=dealbook&nl_art=1&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&referer=</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ensignavenger</author><text>Maybe because they are only in demand at the current price point, but as soon as the price goes up, people switch to &#x27;substitute goods&#x27;?</text></comment> |
9,528,324 | 9,527,200 | 1 | 3 | 9,526,820 | train | <story><title>Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab</title><url>https://www.recurse.com/blog/83-michael-nielsen-joins-the-recurse-center-to-help-build-a-research-lab</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h34t</author><text>I spent last summer at Recurse Center and it was the most fun I&#x27;ve ever had programming. The team deeply understands how to create an atmosphere in which you can try things that would feel impossible on your own. After I left, I tried working from coffee shops again, and the difference was crushing. It suddenly felt terribly wrong to be surrounded by dozens of people, not one of whom understood what I was working on or cared. Yet outside of RC this has been my default mode of work and the reason why I&#x27;ve often felt like doing something else.<p>The one thing I felt lacking at RC was a greater sense of challenge: the emphasis was on personal development more than pushing the limits of the field itself. Building a research lab means that, with luck, RC can become a place where the world&#x27;s best programmers will want to come to do their most interesting work - and all the better, in an open atmosphere where you can show people what you&#x27;re building. I&#x27;m excited to see where this goes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab</title><url>https://www.recurse.com/blog/83-michael-nielsen-joins-the-recurse-center-to-help-build-a-research-lab</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcafeeryan92</author><text>This sounds great. Funding people over projects is the right approach to doing research, imo, because of the dangers of pursuing research topics simply because they seem fundable or being afraid to pursue more risky research that could be more beneficial solely due to fundability. I hope this model works great for them and finds its way into more types of science as well.</text></comment> |
32,260,175 | 32,260,019 | 1 | 2 | 32,257,412 | train | <story><title>Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened</title><url>https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvdsgl</author><text>I was the lead designer of Unity. Unity was not a response to patent concerns, but rather the manifestation of a convoluted OEM strategy involving exclusive distribution of distinct design features, and a write-once-run-anywhere dream of running Ubuntu on any device from netbooks to big screens to automobiles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>max-m</author><text>When Ubuntu first switched to Unity I hated it.
But over time it got better and I got used to its concepts and I&#x27;m daily driving it to this day.
Now I even fear the day Compiz and therefore Unity stop working - it has become my DE of choice.
I love its space efficiency: the global menu bar and the local window menus (I have it configured to show the window menu when I hover the title bar) and the &quot;task bar&quot; on the left: I use my displays in landscape mode, so width is abundant but height is at a premium.
The grid layout shortcuts just work, something that Gnome 3 couldn&#x27;t really do when I last tried it a couple of years ago.
I don&#x27;t often use the HUD to activate menu entries, but it can be very nice for programs like GIMP when you remember the name of an entry but can&#x27;t find it in all those submenus.
I wish Canonical would still maintain it, over the years it seems to have regressed a bit. Nowadays some (I think mostly SDL2) applications tend to slow down the whole UI and window transitions &quot;take forever&quot;. But apart from that it has served me well. So thank you and everyone who was involved with Unity!</text></comment> | <story><title>Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened</title><url>https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvdsgl</author><text>I was the lead designer of Unity. Unity was not a response to patent concerns, but rather the manifestation of a convoluted OEM strategy involving exclusive distribution of distinct design features, and a write-once-run-anywhere dream of running Ubuntu on any device from netbooks to big screens to automobiles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esoterae</author><text>Well, if nothing else hopefully someone else notices this witness statement exposing the above-linked revisionist history for what it is--a fabrication.<p>On the topic of Unity: I, a linux user since the mid 90s, worked an actual linux job through the forced deprecation of GNOME 2.. I don&#x27;t have much anything constructive to say about it. I even used fvwm2 for a while after gnome2 got yoinked.. it was a nice reminder of my halcyon days writing perl in xemacs, running fvwm on my sparc 2. It wasn&#x27;t too long after that I landed on xfce. I still wonder what gnome2 could&#x27;ve been.<p>All I ever wanted was a compositing, focus-follows-mouse, raise&#x2F;lower window manager with a full-featured keyboard shortcut config. I still feel as though we were sold out. I don&#x27;t think my mental representation of Canonical will ever recover. It just felt so blatantly anti-user during that period, and that impression has not been tempered with the passage of time.</text></comment> |
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